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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Stellar evolution (redirect from Evolution of stars)
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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Stellar population (redirect from Population II stars)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life origination beyond planets (redirect from Hypothetical life forms inside stars)
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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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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Aristarchus of Samos (section Distance to the Sun)
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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G-type main-sequence star (redirect from G type stars)
energy. Besides the Sun, other well-known examples of G-type main-sequence stars include Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, and 51 Pegasi. The term yellow dwarf...
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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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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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PLATO (spacecraft) (redirect from Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars)
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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Solar mass (redirect from The mass of the Sun)
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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Main sequence (redirect from Main sequence stars)
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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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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Turn Up The Sun! is an upcoming British thriller film written and directed by Jamie Adams. The film stars James McAvoy, Lucas Bravo, Aisling Franciosi...
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Stellar kinematics (redirect from Exiled stars)
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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