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  • | title=SIMBAD Query Result: HD 204188 -- Spectroscopic binary '''IK Pegasi''' (or '''HR 8210''') is a [[binary star]] [[star system|system]] in the [[constellation]] [[Pegasus (constella ...
    42 KB (6,228 words) - 21:05, 5 February 2010
  • ...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
  • ...nergy]].<ref name="osln" /> White dwarfs comprise roughly 6% of all known stars in the [[Local Interstellar Cloud|solar neighborhood]].<ref>[http://www.cha ...hysics]], April 17, 2007.</ref> appear to have been formed by mass loss in binary systems. ...
    77 KB (11,681 words) - 15:01, 22 October 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
  • ...trait of the Alpha Centauri System: VLT Interferometer Studies the Nearest Stars | title=First radius measurements of very low mass stars with the VLTI ...
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  • | title=The Stars: Their Structure and Evolution | title=The Stars: Their Structure and Evolution ...
    58 KB (8,480 words) - 20:27, 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 ...nal fields. This has become possible thanks to precision observations of [[binary pulsar]]s. In such a star system, two highly compact [[neutron star]]s orbi ...
    67 KB (9,914 words) - 21:17, 11 August 2009
  • ...ptured KBO.<ref>{{cite web|title=Neptune’s capture of its moon Triton in a binary-planet gravitational encounter|author=Craig B. Agnor & Douglas P. Hamilton| ...Os (a high percentage) exist in binaries.<ref name=binary>{{cite web|title=Binary Kuiper Belt Objects|author=Dave Jewitt|url=http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewit ...
    58 KB (9,031 words) - 16:11, 18 August 2009
  • ...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
  • ...ests in stronger gravitational fields are provided by the observation of [[binary pulsar]]s.<ref>Reviews are given in {{Harvnb|Stairs|2003}} and {{Harvnb|Kra ...wards that body. This effect has been confirmed by observing the light of stars or distant [[quasars]] being deflected as it passes the [[Sun]].<ref>Cf. {{ ...
    160 KB (21,329 words) - 06:49, 19 August 2009
  • ...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
  • ...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
  • ...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