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- ...uminosity stars (red and white dwarfs) from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.]] ...ll]]. Stars on this band are known as '''main-sequence stars''' or "dwarf" stars. ...49 KB (7,190 words) - 18:56, 4 June 2009
- ...en-Institut Heidelberg | date=March 4, 1998 | work=ARI Database for Nearby Stars |url=http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/datenbanken/aricns/cnspages/4c01453.h ...wo-Tenths catalogue|LTT]] 15309, Munich 15040, [[List of nearest stars|Proxima Ophiuchi]], [[Variable star designation|V2500 Ophiuchi]], ''[[Latin ...30 KB (4,146 words) - 19:05, 17 August 2009
- | title=Are beryllium abundances anomalous in stars with giant planets? | title=Magnetic Field and Rotation in Lower Main-Sequence Stars: an Empirical Time-dependent Magnetic Bode's Relation? ...35 KB (5,101 words) - 20:07, 10 August 2009
- ...: a catalogue of the positions, photometric magnitudes and spectra of 9110 stars, mainly of the magnitude 6.50, and brighter observed with the 2 and {{conve ...ronomers to determine the relative orbital velocity of at least one of the stars even though they are unable to resolve the individual components.<ref>{{cit ...42 KB (6,228 words) - 21:05, 5 February 2010
- ...trait of the Alpha Centauri System: VLT Interferometer Studies the Nearest Stars | title=First radius measurements of very low mass stars with the VLTI ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 12:18, 5 February 2010
- ...s to smaller denser clumps within, which then proceed to collapse and form stars. Star formation is a complex process, which always produces a gaseous [[pro ...ts.<ref name=Andre1994/> At the age of about 1 million years, 100% of stars may have such disks.<ref name=Haisch2001/> This conclusion is supported by ...50 KB (7,534 words) - 17:00, 23 June 2009
- | title=The Stars: Their Structure and Evolution | title=The determination of T<sub>eff</sub> for metal-poor A-type stars using V and 2MASS J, H and K magnitudes ...61 KB (9,014 words) - 04:56, 13 June 2010
- ...ght|300px|The [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]], an [[open cluster]] of stars in the [[constellation]] of [[Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]. ''[[NASA]] p ...ghtest stars gained proper names. Extensive [[star catalogue|catalogues of stars]] have been assembled by astronomers, which provide standardized [[star des ...96 KB (14,170 words) - 15:20, 20 August 2009
- | title=The Stars: Their Structure and Evolution | title=The Stars: Their Structure and Evolution ...58 KB (8,480 words) - 20:27, 18 August 2009
- ...nergy]].<ref name="osln" /> White dwarfs comprise roughly 6% of all known stars in the [[Local Interstellar Cloud|solar neighborhood]].<ref>[http://www.cha ...hys230/lectures/planneb/planneb.html Late stages of evolution for low-mass stars], Michael Richmond, lecture notes, Physics 230, [[Rochester Institute of Te ...77 KB (11,681 words) - 15:01, 22 October 2010
- ...G.; McLean, B.; Spagna, A. |title=The Second Guide Star Catalogue and Cool Stars |work=Perkins Observatory |url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001udns.conf. ...d be enriched with these atoms. The oldest stars contain few metals, while stars born later have more. This high metallicity is thought to have been crucial ...82 KB (12,276 words) - 02:46, 16 June 2010
- ...wn as a [[white dwarf]]. In the far distant future, the gravity of passing stars gradually will whittle away at the Sun's retinue of planets. Some planets w ...98/rsta.1984.0078 }}</ref> However, since the early 1980s studies of young stars have shown them to be surrounded by cool discs of dust and gas, exactly as ...85 KB (12,829 words) - 17:09, 18 August 2009
- ...by half that amount. The different predictions can be tested by observing stars that are close to the Sun during a [[solar eclipse]]. In this way, a Britis ..., for which gravitational wave emission is much stronger than for ordinary stars. Also, a pulsar emits a narrow beam of [[electromagnetic radiation]] from i ...67 KB (9,914 words) - 21:17, 11 August 2009
- The extreme [[age of the universe]] and its vast number of stars suggest that if the Earth is typical, extraterrestrial life should be commo ...olved: there are an estimated 250 billion (2.5 x [[1 E9|10<sup>11</sup>]]) stars in the [[Milky Way]] and 70 sextillion (7 x 10<sup>22</sup>) in the [[visib ...74 KB (11,034 words) - 10:20, 30 July 2011
- ...of general relativity|tests]] on the scale of the solar system and binary stars while extrapolation to cosmological scales has been validated by the empiri ...distances that separate nearby points. The points, which can be galaxies, stars, or other objects, themselves are specified using a [[coordinate chart]] or ...71 KB (10,449 words) - 08:42, 20 August 2009
- [[Image:Kuiper belt remote.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The debris disks around two stars ([[HD 139664]] and [[HD 53143]])]] ...ely sharp boundaries. Most known [[debris disk|debris discs]] around other stars are fairly young, but the two images on the left, taken by the Hubble Space ...58 KB (9,031 words) - 16:11, 18 August 2009
- ...mp;high=42ca922c9c03088 Further Observations on the Spectra of Some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to Determine Therefrom Whether These Bodies ar ...nd characteristics of [[extrasolar planet|planetary systems]] around other stars.<ref>The [[Exoplanet Tracker]] is the newest observing project to use this ...66 KB (9,812 words) - 16:59, 27 April 2010
- ...uipartition theorem is useful in predicting the properties of such neutron stars.]] ...temperatures or the [[Chandrasekhar limit]] on the mass of [[white dwarf]] stars.<ref>{{cite book | last = Chandrasekhar | first = S | authorlink = Subrahma ...84 KB (12,734 words) - 06:55, 8 August 2009
- ...ede, on January 13. By January 15, Galileo came to the conclusion that the stars were actually bodies orbiting Jupiter.<ref name="Discovery">{{cite web | ur ..." and settled on "[[Galilean_Satellites#Dedication_to_the_Medicis|Medicean Stars]]".<ref name="Naming">{{cite web | url = http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observ ...62 KB (9,204 words) - 08:32, 18 August 2009
- ...ewer Dean Carlson disliked the album, giving it a rating of one and a half stars. He described it as "little more than a slightly off-base perspective into ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 05:31, 16 August 2009