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  • ...ss naturally results in the appearance of [[accretion disk]]s around young stellar objects.<ref name=Andre1994/> At the age of about 1&nbsp;million years, 100 ...st=Pudritz|first=Ralph E.|title=Clustered Star Formation and the Origin of Stellar Masses|journal=Science|volume=295| pages=68&ndash;75|year=2002|doi=10.1126/ ...
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  • White dwarfs are thought to be the final [[stellar evolution|evolutionary state]] of all stars whose mass is not too high—over ...|Williamina Fleming]] that despite being a dim star, 40 Eridani B was of [[stellar classification|spectral type]] A, or white.<ref name="holberg">[http://adsa ...
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  • ...aphy|id=Doppler}}</ref> While this attribution turned out to be incorrect (stellar colors are indicators of a star's [[color temperature|temperature]], not mo .....275L&amp;data_type=PDF_HIGH&amp;type=PRINTER&amp;filetype=.pdf Solar and stellar seismology], ''Space Science Reviews'', 1988 '''37''' n. 3–4, 275–301.</ref ...
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  • ...1995.</ref> Hoyle later helped considerably in the effort to understand [[stellar nucleosynthesis]], the nuclear pathway for building certain heavier element ...fore star formation, as determined by studying matter supposedly free of [[stellar nucleosynthesis]] products) should have more helium than deuterium or more ...
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  • ...ar wind]], a flow of [[plasma (physics)|plasma]] from the Sun, creates a [[stellar wind bubble|bubble]] in the [[interstellar medium]] known as the [[heliosph ...henomena such as [[mountains]] and [[craters]] and seasonal meteorological phenomena such as [[clouds]], [[dust storms]] and [[ice caps]] on the other planets. ...
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  • ...e, and there are references to his using polar coordinates in establishing stellar positions.<ref name="milestones">{{cite web| last = Friendly| first = Micha ...—such as those concerned with bodies moving around a central point or with phenomena originating from a central point—are simpler and more intuitive to model us ...
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  • ...scape—as an end-state for massive [[star]]s. There is evidence that such [[stellar black hole]]s as well as more massive varieties of black hole are responsib ...aling with speeds approaching the [[speed of light]], and with high-energy phenomena.<ref>An in-depth comparison between the two symmetry groups can be found in ...
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  • ...e. Certain types of black holes are thought to be the final state in the [[stellar evolution|evolution]] of massive [[star]]s. On the other hand, [[supermassi ...holes is thought to be responsible for some of the brightest astronomical phenomena imaginable. Notable examples of great interest to astronomers are [[quasars ...
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  • ...Evidence that the rings might have gaps first arose during a [[occultation|stellar occultation]] in 1984 when the rings obscured a star on immersion but not o | title=Five Stellar Occultations by Neptune: Further Observations of Ring Arcs ...
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  • ...[J2000.0]]<ref group=note>All astronomical quantities vary, both [[Secular phenomena|secularly]] and [[Frequency|periodically]]. The quantities given are the va The Sun, as part of its [[stellar evolution|evolution]], will become a [[red giant]] in about 5 Gyr. Models p ...
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