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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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  • constant. Substellar objects like brown dwarfs do not have enough mass to fuse hydrogen and helium, hence do not undergo the usual stellar evolution that limits...
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    3847/0004-6256/152/6/186. S2CID 58923690. 186. Zealey, W. J. (1992). "Young Stellar Objects and Herbig–Haro Objects". Australian Journal of Physics. 45 (4): 487–499. Bibcode:1992AuJPh...
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  • state and type of a stellar remnant depends primarily on the mass of the star that it formed from. The ambiguous term compact object is often used when...
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    to the star formation process, and the study of protostars and young stellar objects as its immediate products. It is closely related to planet formation...
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    protostar is a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. It is the earliest phase in the process of stellar evolution. For...
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    Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
    gravitational interactions during close encounters with other stars in young stellar clusters. These interactions tend to split apart more widely separated...
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  • A stellar collision is the coming together of two stars caused by stellar dynamics within a star cluster, or by the orbital decay of a binary star due...
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    binary star systems. In various stages of their life, they are called young stellar object (YSOs). It is thought that the active magnetic fields and strong...
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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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    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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    1086/181126. Chrysostomou, Antonio; et al. (2000). "Polarimetry of young stellar objects - III. Circular polarimetry of OMC-1". MNRAS. 312 (1): 103–115....
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    continues, the envelope eventually becomes thin and transparent and the young stellar object (YSO) becomes observable, initially in far-infrared light and later...
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    sites of planet formation. Protoplanetary disk Protostar Stellar evolution Young stellar object Richard B. Larson (10 September 2003). "The physics of star...
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    word "dwarf" was later extended to some star-sized objects that are not stars, and compact stellar remnants that are no longer stars. The term was originally...
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  • with planets. Notable neutron stars, black holes, and other exotic stellar objects/remnants. Note that these lists are currently unfinished, and there...
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    OB-association of young stars, called the Vulpecula OB-association or Vul OB1. The association contains nearly 100 OB-stars and over 800 young stellar objects. It lies...
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    A molecular cloud—sometimes called a stellar nursery if star formation is occurring within—is a type of interstellar cloud of which the density and size...
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    An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists...
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    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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    Lin; Clemens, Dan P. (January 1992). "Discovery of outflows from young stellar objects in BOK globules". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 385: L21. Bibcode:1992ApJ...
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    Barnard 203 (category Barnard objects)
    well-studied. The source IRS 2 is a binary that is very young (class 0 young stellar object), surrounded by a rotating disk and the system shows a bipolar...
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    continues, the envelope eventually becomes thin and transparent and the young stellar object (YSO) becomes observable, initially in far-infrared light and later...
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    dwarfs, and white dwarfs which are much more common, the latter being stellar remnants). A G-type main-sequence star with the mass of the Sun will fuse...
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    head of the cloud and is about 0.75 ly long. The jet's source is a young stellar object deep within the cloud. Jets are the exhaust gasses of star formation...
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  • A dark-energy star is a hypothetical compact astrophysical object, which a minority of physicists think might constitute an alternative explanation for...
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    IM Lupi is a young stellar object with a surrounding protoplanetary disk. The young star is suspected to host a still forming protoplanet at a distance...
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    In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses...
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    continue to generate large amount of radiant energy from the infall of stellar material. This constant outburst of energy would counteract the force of...
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    that affect developing planetary systems. Several special types of young stellar object have been identified in RCW 36, and are described in more detail...
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