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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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system Stellar triangulation Stellar uplift Stellar variation Stellar vault Stellar wind Stellar wind (disambiguation) Stellar wobble Stellar X-ray astronomy...
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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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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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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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consists of at least two stars, both with strong stellar winds and a shocked colliding wind (wind-wind collision or WWC) zone, embedded within a dusty...
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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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at their cores. The emission spectrum is produced in a powerful dense stellar wind, and the enhanced levels of helium and nitrogen arise from convectional...
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A stellar magnetic field is a magnetic field generated by the motion of conductive plasma inside a star. This motion is created through convection, which...
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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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around 15,000 K, but is of much lower density. Velocity of the fast stellar wind is about 1900 km/s, where spectroscopic analysis shows the current rate...
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cool giant star loses material via Roche lobe overflow or through its stellar wind, which flows onto the hot compact star, usually via an accretion disk...
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Cygnus X-1 (category Stellar black holes)
orbits at about 0.2 AU, or 20% of the distance from Earth to the Sun. A stellar wind from the star provides material for an accretion disk around the X-ray...
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thought to feature unusually strong stellar winds, high surface temperatures, and significant attrition of stellar mass as the objects rotate at a curiously...
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molecular weight. Galactic superwind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Stellar-wind bubble Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Superwind Shelton, Jim...
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