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  • newspapers. The Tribune became the city's morning newspaper, the Star-Journal (renamed the Star in 1947) was the evening newspaper, and they published a joint...
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    I. A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Star-Planet Interaction in the HD 189733 System". The Astrophysical Journal. 872 (1): 79. arXiv:1901.02048. Bibcode:2019ApJ...
    149 KB (16,083 words) - 19:02, 30 August 2024
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    ISBN 978-0-521-68435-4. Kunitzsch, Paul (1986). "The Star Catalogue Commonly Appended to the Alfonsine Tables". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 17 (49): 89–98...
    174 KB (18,520 words) - 12:57, 5 September 2024
  • renamed the Toronto Star in 1971 and introduced a Sunday edition in 1977. The Star was created in 1892 by striking Toronto News printers and writers, led...
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    making Star Wars the third-highest-grossing film franchise of all time. The Star Wars franchise depicts the adventures of characters "a long time ago in...
    206 KB (16,661 words) - 14:02, 2 September 2024
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    created by Aristillus in approximately 300 BC, with the help of Timocharis. The star catalog of Hipparchus (2nd century BC) included 1,020 stars, and was used...
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    position of the star lies less than 1° away from the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star. The stable position of the star in the...
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    Centauri d and the disputed Proxima Centauri c. Proxima Centauri b orbits the star at a distance of roughly 0.05 AU (7.5 million km) with an orbital period...
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    Σείριος (Latin script: Seirios), meaning lit. 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is designated α Canis Majoris, Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, and abbreviated...
    97 KB (10,150 words) - 10:24, 30 August 2024
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    raised enough to trigger runaway nuclear fusion, completely disrupting the star. Possible causes are an accumulation of material from a binary companion...
    201 KB (21,932 words) - 09:53, 3 September 2024
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    in the speed with which the star moves toward or away from Earth, i.e. the variations are in the radial velocity of the star with respect to Earth. The...
    134 KB (15,271 words) - 19:20, 30 August 2024
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    discovered by examining the star system in infrared light and looking for an excess of radiation beyond that emitted by the star. This excess is inferred...
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    greater than 2). These elements are all uniformly mixed throughout the star. The star reaches the main sequence when the core reaches a temperature high...
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    about its axis. The rate of rotation can be measured from the spectrum of the star, or by timing the movements of active features on the surface. The rotation...
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    Retrieved 12 April 2020. Burke-Gaffney, W. (1937). "Kelper and the Star of Bethlehem" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 31: 417–425...
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    newspapers, nor the elimination of home delivery. The Star-Ledger is a sister paper to The Jersey Journal in Secaucus, The Times in Trenton, and the Staten...
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    November 4, 2007. Kunitzsch, Paul (1986). "The Star Catalogue Commonly Appended to the Alfonsine Tables". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 17 (49): 89–98...
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    a mass of 1.2 M☉. The star, given its evolutionary state, is expected to have undergone significant mass loss in the past. The star displays magnetic...
    53 KB (5,320 words) - 15:41, 21 August 2024
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    zones near the surface. With decreasing stellar mass, the proportion of the star forming a convective envelope steadily increases. The Main-sequence stars...
    61 KB (6,826 words) - 05:12, 17 August 2024
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    whose luminosity actually changes periodically; for example, because the star swells and shrinks. Extrinsic variables, whose apparent changes in brightness...
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