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"star cloud" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection of stars in the night sky that form the shape of a cloud, e.g. "The star cloud lit up the dark sky, providing a striking backdrop for the evening."
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star cloud
noun
A large group of many stars spread over very many light-years of space; the stars are not part of any structure but are in an area of greater than average stellar density.
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Of course, many words do name existing bits and pieces of earth and heaven: stone, tree, dog, woman, star, cloud, and so on.
NGC 206 (OB 78) is the richest star cloud in M31, having a total mass of 200,000 suns and bearing a strong resemblance to the double cluster in Perseus.
To an adolescent, planning her own apotheosis as "one of Tiepolo's ceiling princesses looking down in beautiful amusement from a movie star cloud," these middle-aged women may seem positively ancient, but they are, as Ms. Simpson reminds us, simply the "age of heroes in Russian novels, halfway through the threescore years and 10".
Shippo cofounder and CEO Laura Behrens Wu is leading one of 20 Rising Star cloud companies bursting onto the scene.
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The Southern sky offers many of the most exciting sights in the universe, like the center of our own Milky Way galaxy and its attendant star clouds and clusters.
Also, 15 star clouds (aggregations of many thousands of stars dispersed over hundreds or even thousands of light-years) are recognized.
Perhaps during this yearlong party, astronomers may finally know if the dark shadow of eternity is smiling at us through the star clouds of Sagittarius.
The light from the center of the Milky Way, hiding behind the thick star clouds and dust lanes of Sagittarius, takes 26,000 years to get here.
Speckled along the Milky Way, the dark constellations of Yutu the Bird, Hanpatu the Toad and Machacuay the Serpent wind their way through the star clouds.
Proposed sources of dark matter include burnt-out stars; clouds of dust and gas; and subatomic particles called Wimps – weakly interacting massive particles.
Scouring multiple views of the collisions, the researchers tracked the movement of the three main components of galaxies: stars, clouds of gas, and dark matter.
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