A stellar wind is a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. It is distinguished from the bipolar outflows characteristic of young stars...
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"Stellar Wind" (or "Stellarwind"[citation needed]) was the code name of a warrantless surveillance program begun under the George W. Bush administration's...
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shell around the hot, shocked wind. Cosmic wind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Galactic superwind Superwind...
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Stellar wind is the flow of particles from the atmosphere of stars. Stellar wind may also refer to: Stellar Wind, the code name for certain United States...
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TRAPPIST-1 (section Skies and impact of stellar light)
properties such as mass, scaling instead with the stellar wind mass flux impacting the planet. Stellar wind from TRAPPIST-1 could remove the atmospheres of...
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Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
main sequence 4.6 billion (4.6×109) years ago. Every star generates a stellar wind of particles that causes a continual outflow of gas into space. For most...
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undergoes some mass loss in its lifetime. This could be caused by its own stellar wind, or by interactions with the outside environment. Additionally, massive...
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Tracy Hickman (redirect from Songs of the Stellar Wind)
Tracy Raye Hickman (born November 26, 1955) is an American fantasy author and designer of games and virtual reality (VR) experiences. He co-authored the...
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Solar wind is a stellar phenomenon of the Sun Solar wind may also refer to: Stellar wind, gas ejected from the atmosphere of stars Solar Winds, a computer...
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the generation of a stellar magnetic field. In its turn, the magnetic field of a star interacts with the stellar wind. As the wind moves away from the...
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Orion Nebula (section Stellar wind and effects)
charged particles known as a stellar wind. Massive stars and young stars have much stronger stellar winds than the Sun. The wind forms shock waves or hydrodynamical...
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separating a star's corona from the stellar wind defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale stellar wind speed are equal. It is named...
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Interstellar medium (redirect from Stellar fog)
replenishes the ISM with matter and energy through planetary nebulae, stellar winds, and supernovae. This interplay between stars and the ISM helps determine...
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Stellar Wind (foaled February 13, 2012) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, known for her Eclipse Award winning three-year-old season, and later for...
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conditions of density and pressure change dramatically due to blowing stellar wind. Bow shock occurs when the magnetosphere of an astrophysical object interacts...
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In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred...
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colliding-wind binary is a binary star system in which the two members are massive stars that emit powerful, radiatively-driven stellar winds. The location...
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Studies have shown that disk wind is the major contributor to accretion in young stellar objects. In the late stage, disk winds are seen as a way of dispersing...
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Planetary nebula (redirect from Stellar planetary)
and features are not yet well understood, but binary central stars, stellar winds and magnetic fields may play a role. The first planetary nebula discovered...
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0+01.8 Crab Nebula Cosmic wind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Stellar-wind bubble Colliding-wind binary Galactic superwind Superwind Orders of magnitude...
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Orbit (section Light radiation and stellar wind)
cases have been formulated. For smaller bodies particularly, light and stellar wind can cause significant perturbations to the attitude and direction of...
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Rigel (section Stellar system)
that of the Sun, and its surface temperature is 12,100 K. Due to its stellar wind, Rigel's mass-loss is estimated to be ten million times that of the Sun...
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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. These coronae can be detected using X-ray telescopes. Some stellar coronae, particularly in young stars, are much more luminous than the Sun's...
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before the disk disappears, perhaps being blown away by the young star's stellar wind, or perhaps simply ceasing to emit radiation after accretion has ended...
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In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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Young stellar object (YSO) denotes a star in its early stage of evolution. This class consists of two groups of objects: protostars and pre-main-sequence...
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supergiants (see stellar classification), that emit a radiation driven stellar wind from their surface. The neutron star is immersed in the wind and continuously...
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Earth-like planet. Stellar winds and coronal mass ejections are an even bigger threat to an atmosphere. The amount of stellar wind impacting Proxima Centauri...
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Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension...
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1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that...
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