• Question: How are nebula clusters formed?

    Asked by anon-226046 to joannabarstow on 18 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Joanna Barstow

      Joanna Barstow answered on 18 Nov 2019:


      A nebula is a cloud of dust and gas in space, which is a good place for stars to form because there’s plenty of raw material. Star clusters are regions in space with stars that are close enough to be gravitationally bound to each other, which may have formed in the same nebula.

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