stellar association

noun

, Astronomy.

1. a sparsely populated group of between 10 and 1000 young stars of similar spectral type and common origin that are moving too fast to form a permanent, gravitationally bound system.

Example Sentences

Seattle Opera presents “The Turn of the Screw”: This eerie ghost-story opera by 20th-century English composer Benjamin Britten comes to the stage in a new production directed by Peter Kazaras, who has a long and stellar association with Seattle Opera.

From Seattle Times