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| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) | Cite This Source |
globular cluster
–noun Astronomy.
| a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center. |
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globular cluster: see star cluster.
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