• 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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    of the Sun, Caplan deems 10 million years to be sufficient for a stellar collision avoidance. His proposal was commissioned by the German educational...
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  • The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local...
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  • red nova, an explosion thought to be caused by stellar collision Solar flares are a minor type of stellar explosion Tidal disruption event, the pulling...
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    with incineration by the star's radiation (such as for comets). Collisions of stellar-mass objects are usually accompanied by effects such as gamma-ray...
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    A neutron star merger is the stellar collision of neutron stars. When two neutron stars fall into mutual orbit, they gradually spiral inward due to gravitational...
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    Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
    Retrieved 21 January 2014. Lombardi, J. C. Jr.; et al. (2002). "Stellar Collisions and the Interior Structure of Blue Stragglers". The Astrophysical...
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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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  • cluster Stellar collision Stellar core Stellar coronae Stellar density Stellar disk Stellar distance Stellar drift Stellar dynamics Stellar engine Stellar engineering...
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  • Rogue planet Near-Earth supernova Hypernova Micronova Solar flare Stellar collision Eschatological Buddhist Maitreya Three Ages Hindu Kalki Kali Yuga...
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  • discovery hints at stellar collision". New Scientist. 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2007-01-06. Whipple, Fred L. (1939). "Supernovae and Stellar Collisions". Proceedings...
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    the Sun, but Caplan deems 10 million years to be sufficient for a stellar collision avoidance. Several of the obvious technical difficulties with the...
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    A stellar black hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They have masses ranging from about 5...
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    process naturally results in the appearance of accretion disks around young stellar objects. At the age of about 1 million years, 100% of stars may have such...
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    the Navy describes Fitzgerald's course in the half-hour prior to the collision as running 190T (nearly due south), with a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h;...
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    Hubble and Spitzer. However, collisions in planetary systems including stellar collisions, while long speculated, have only recently begun to be observed directly...
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    David (January 3, 2007). "Brightest supernova discovery hints at stellar collision". New Scientist. Retrieved July 17, 2009. Than, Ker (October 11, 2007)...
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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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    1991-07-24. Retrieved 2006-05-24. Leonard, Peter J. T. (1989). "Stellar collisions in globular clusters and the blue straggler problem". The Astronomical...
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    of the ion component of the plasma, as individual ions are excited by collision with other ions or electrons, or by absorption of ultraviolet light from...
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    stellar mass black holes and other compact objects by means of accretion. The second one is the runaway collision of massive stars in dense stellar clusters...
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    below that in the best laboratory vacuums, the mean free path between collisions is short compared to typical interstellar lengths, so on these scales...
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    Quasar (redirect from Quasi-stellar object)
    luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN). It is sometimes known as a quasi-stellar object, abbreviated QSO. The emission from an AGN is powered by a supermassive...
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  • Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a 2003 racing video game developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing. The player controls a semi-trailer...
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    mechanics. In accretion disks and stellar surfaces, the dense plasma or gas particles collide very frequently, and collisions result in equipartition and perhaps...
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    massive star. However, the stellar density in open clusters is much lower than that in globular clusters, and stellar collisions cannot explain the numbers...
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    interstellar matter of which spiral arms are prominent components A central stellar bulge of mainly older stars, which resembles an elliptical galaxy A bar-shaped...
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    Earth's rotation (redirect from Stellar day)
    solar days). Thus, the sidereal day is shorter than the stellar day by about 8.4 ms. Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar...
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