Evidence for a Catastrophically Disrupted Open Cluster
Alexis N. Miller et al 2025 ApJ 986 27 Gaia data support a scenario in which an open cluster was unbound by a nearly head-on collision with a massive giant molecular cloud; this may be the first…
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