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open cluster

group of "sibling" stars that are loosely gravitationally bound to one another
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open cluster

Summary

open cluster is an astronomical object type[1]. It draws 309 Wikipedia views per month (astronomical_object_type category, ranking #82 of 289).[2]

Key Facts

  • open cluster's image is recorded as Praesepe 2mass.jpg[3].
  • open cluster's instance of is recorded as astronomical object type[4].
  • open cluster's GND ID is recorded as 4244900-5[5].
  • open cluster's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85127441[6].
  • open cluster's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12435405s[7].
  • open cluster's subclass of is recorded as star cluster[8].
  • open cluster's part of is recorded as galaxy[9].
  • open cluster's Commons category is recorded as Open clusters[10].
  • open cluster's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 17851[11].
  • open cluster's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05p2x[12].
  • open cluster's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Open clusters[13].
  • open cluster's spoken text audio is recorded as En-Open cluster-article.ogg[14].
  • open cluster's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 523.852[15].
  • open cluster's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1487992[16].
  • open cluster's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/open-cluster[17].
  • open cluster's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox open cluster[18].
  • open cluster's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as open-star-clusters[19].
  • open cluster's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1160[20].
  • open cluster's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 135993[21].
  • open cluster's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].
  • open cluster's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 52348108[23].
  • open cluster's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007531743805171[24].
  • open cluster's KBpedia ID is recorded as OpenCluster[25].
  • open cluster's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C52348108[26].
  • open cluster's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/open-cluster[27].

Why It Matters

open cluster draws 309 Wikipedia views per month (astronomical_object_type category, ranking #82 of 289).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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