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globular star cluster

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globular star cluster [′gläb·yə·lər ′stär ‚kləs·tər]
(astronomy)
A group of many thousands of stars that are much closer to each other than the stars around the group and that are traveling through space together; a globular cluster has a slightly flattened spheroidal shape.
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