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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Trifid Nebula (redirect from Messier Object 20)
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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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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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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Star formation (redirect from Stellar nursery)
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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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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Protostar (section Observed classes of young stars)
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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IC 5146 (redirect from Caldwell Object 19)
identified hundreds of young stellar objects. Young stars are seen in both the emission nebula, where gas has been ionized by massive young stars, and in the...
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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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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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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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Peculiar Wolf-Rayet Stars of Type WN8 Thorne-Zytkow Objects?". In Shara, Michael M. (ed.). Stellar Collisions, Mergers and their Consequences. ASP Conference...
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Nebular hypothesis (redirect from Stellar near-collision)
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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Pre-main-sequence star (redirect from Young star)
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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continue generating a 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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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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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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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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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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Accretion (astrophysics) (redirect from Stellar accretion)
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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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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A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the...
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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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These coronae can be detected using X-ray telescopes. Some stellar coronae, particularly in young stars, are much more luminous than the Sun's. For example...
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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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Vulpecula (section Stellar association)
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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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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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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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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