How to Use globular cluster in a Sentence

globular cluster

noun

• That source turned out to be a globular cluster of stars in the nearby galaxy M81.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
• This is the second-closest globular cluster to Earth, about 7,800 light-years away.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Other UDGs seem to have lots of globular clusters, too.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2016
• Stars more massive than the Sun tend to die after a few billion years, which is younger than the age of the typical globular cluster.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
• More than 140 globular clusters form a giant halo around our Milky Way Galaxy.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
• Inside a globular cluster, a 50-solar-mass black hole could merge with a 30-solar-mass one, for instance, and then the resulting giant could merge again.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2019
• The point sources proved to be 10 globular clusters—compact and spherical groupings of stars, orbiting the galaxy’s core.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• Back in our Milky Way galaxy, the session will also include the amazing Messier 3 globular cluster and—much closer to home—a couple of asteroids that are buzzing close to Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2021
• Only a portion of the globular cluster appears in the image, with the cluster stretching about 100 light-years in diameter.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2023
• It might also be seen in dense globular clusters populated by thousands of black holes.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
• The sources of gas created a second generation of stars, increasing both the density and size of the globular cluster.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2022
• But spring and fall are prime times for globular clusters (dense collections of ancient stars), especially on nights when bright moonlight might drown out the planets.
  — Erin E. Williams, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2019
• Thinking global The new work focuses on what are called globular clusters, which are large groups of stars held together by gravity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2019
• Using information from the Keck telescopes, the team found the globular clusters were moving much slower than expected.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• European Space Agency Astronomers have said that globular clusters are some of the oldest objects in the universe, and thus could offer insights into how their host galaxies formed and evolved.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Like light, radio waves coming from planets, stars, and globular clusters with changing magnetic fields travel through space.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
• The scopes detected 10 compact groups of these stars, also known as globular clusters, within the galaxy, according to a press release from Gemini.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2018
• But recent research by Gerosa and one of his colleagues found that the recoil from such collisions would likely eject most pairs from the globular cluster, preventing them from finding future companions to merge with.
  — Charlie Wood, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2019
• The discovery has generated enough interest to earn the team precious time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study Dragonfly 44’s globular clusters.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2016
• Previous studies had suggested that a globular cluster might be the first place where intelligent life is identified in the galaxy.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2018
• According to scientists, the theory is that the first generation of stars in the globular cluster ejected matter into the surrounding cosmos when they were born.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Scientists are still debating whether there’s actually a black hole in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
  — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2019
• Phil Plait on globular clusters: There’s another kind of cluster called a globular cluster, and these are roughly spherical clusters of hundreds of thousands or even a million stars.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2023
• The series of 1s and 0s was designed to convey simple information about humanity and biology and was sent toward the globular cluster M13.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
• Researchers literally followed the crumb trail to find globular clusters of stars that once belonged to other galaxies within Andromeda.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
• The Euclid telescope spied a globular cluster — a huge collection of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity — located approximately 7,800 light-years away from Earth.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• An international team of astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
• Still, if whatever funny, advanced creatures that possibly inhabit globular cluster M13, where the original primal message is headed, somehow tune in to this musical version, there just might be hope.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024