A group of stars are called a?

Question

Is a group of stars called a solar system, star system, or neutron star?

Answer 1

A star system is two or more stars which are gravitatuonally linked to one another and revolve around one another: a binary, trinary etc system.

Examples: the 3 stars that comprise the Alpha Centauri system. or the triple star that is Polaris

A sfar cluster is a co-moving group of stars that move through space together and were formed at the same time as one another

Examples: the Pleiades in Taurus and the nearby Hyades

A constellation is a group of stars that are in the same line of sight as one another from earth and currently occupy adjacent positions on a star map but they have a wide variety of distances from earth and are in no way neighbours in space,

Examples: Orion and Ursa Major

The question needs a tighter definition as to what kind of a group of stars is being described to be able to answer it satisfactorily.

Answer 2

A group of stars can be called a lot of things. However, if those three are your choices, then it is a star system. A star system is a small collection of stars that exert gravity on each other and cause each to orbit the other. A solar system has one star with planets orbiting it. Planets are not stars. A neutron star is a single entity. It is not a collection of celestial bodies.

Answer 3

1. Solar system has only one star so it is not a group of stars.
2. Neutron star is a star containing neutrons how is it a group of stars?
3. The last star system might be correct but generally group of stars is called as clusters. viz. open cluster...........

Answer 4

A group of stars is called a star cluster.

A solar system is when a star has planets revolving around it.

A neutron star is a crushed remnant left over when a very massive star explodes . It's a very small, dense star that is so tightly packed together that the protons and electrons have been compressed to form neutrons.

Answer 5

A group of stars all in roughly the same direction is a constellation. In all cases I know about, they're at very different distances and not physically related. Humans are very good at seeing patterns in completely random things, and all the different civilisations have constructed different constellations from the same stars. A galaxy is a group of anything up to a trillion stars bound together gravitationally and orbiting a centre, which is often a black hole. A globular cluster is a much smaller group of stars containing anything from a few dozen, like the Pleiades, up to about a million, and bound gravitationally.

Answer 6

Um, the solar system is a star (specifically the sun -- hence "solar") and the planets orbiting it. Planets aren't stars, so this can't be a group of stars.

Answer 7

Star system. A larger group of stars would be a galaxy (if the stars are rotating around a center of gravity).

A neutron star is a star after it has collapsed in on itself. They are very very dense, small, and cold (cold when comparing to other stars). They also rotate extremely fast (one has been recorded to rotate once every 1/700th of a second).

Solar system is the planets that revolve around our sun and the sun itself (plus the moons, asteroid belt, and kuiper belt).

Answer 8

I thought they were called constellations. But star system sounds the best out of that group.

Answer 9

I would say cluster, but it looks like a star system would be your best bet out of the answers there.

Answer 10

Globular Cluster