• The Stars at the Sun game was played on July 10, 2010 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, home of the Connecticut Sun. This game, unlike previous...
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    list covers all known stars, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects...
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    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
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    the subgiant stage until it reaches the red-giant phase. Stars with at least half the mass of the Sun can also begin to generate energy through the fusion...
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    stars (low metallicity) as population II, and recent stars (high metallicity) as population I. The Sun is considered population I, a recent star with a relatively...
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  • The Sun The Moon The Stars are a stoner metal band from Woodland Park, New Jersey. Prior to the band's formation, frontman Matthew Dwyer began writing...
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    Star (redirect from Stars)
    held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from...
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  • and the Sun is an upcoming American dystopian science fiction film directed by Taika Waititi and written by Dahvi Waller, based on the novel of the same...
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  • characters in the U.S. television comedy series 3rd Rock from the Sun: (Portrayed by John Lithgow; seasons 1-6) Though the High Commander and head of the expedition...
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  • By the Sun and Stars is an editorial documentation of an epic journey around the globe by sailboat. It was written via a logbook by Capt. Wladek Wagner...
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  • Pawn Stars is an American reality television series shown on History and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where...
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    those "fixed" stars. The fixed stars includes all the stars visible to the naked eye other than the Sun, as well as the faint band of the Milky Way. Due...
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  • Moon Embracing the Sun (Korean: 해를 품은 달; RR: Haereul Pum-eun Dal, also known as The Moon that Embraces the Sun or The Sun and the Moon) is a 2012 South...
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  • Sun Sun Thatha (transl. Grandfather Sun Sun) is a 2012 Tamil language independent drama film directed by Nassar. The film stars himself in a supporting...
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    Starlight is the light emitted by stars. It typically refers to visible electromagnetic radiation from stars other than the Sun, observable from Earth at night...
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    the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately...
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    Stars outside of the Solar System have been featured as settings in works of fiction since at least the 1600s, though this did not become commonplace...
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    influence the evolution of lower-mass stars such as the Sun. However, for more massive stars such as O stars, the mass loss can result in a star shedding...
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    Solar System (redirect from Sun system)
    forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is a typical star that maintains a balanced equilibrium by the fusion of hydrogen into helium at its core...
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  • out of the disorder (i.e., to combat entropy) via self-replication The authors proceed to argue that inside Sun-like stars objects that satisfy the above...
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    Solar analog (redirect from Sun-like)
    Solar-type stars, solar analogs (also analogues), and solar twins are stars that are particularly similar to the Sun. The stellar classification is a hierarchy...
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    several types of star life-cycles. These are the most numerous true stars in the universe and include the Sun. Color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell...
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    who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year...
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    the Sun over the course of a year, the Sun appears to move with respect to the fixed stars on the celestial sphere, along a circular path called the ecliptic...
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    Vega (category A-type main-sequence stars)
    relatively close at only 25 light-years (7.7 parsecs) from the Sun, and one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood. It is the fifth-brightest...
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    stars, and to discover and characterize rocky extrasolar planets around yellow dwarf stars (like the Sun), subgiant stars, and red dwarf stars. The emphasis...
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    to indicate the masses of other stars, as well as stellar clusters, nebulae, galaxies and black holes. More precisely, the mass of the Sun is nominal solar...
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    the Galactic Center at the mean velocity of those nearby stars with low velocity dispersion. The Sun's motion with respect to the LSR is called the "peculiar...
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    luminosity of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects in terms of the output of the Sun. One nominal solar luminosity is defined by the International...
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    geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus...
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