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  • Thumbnail for Circumstellar disc
    A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids...
    29 KB (3,603 words) - 21:19, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taurus molecular cloud
    circumstellar disk associated with jets 2M0437b – directly imaged exoplanet V1298 Tauri – four confirmed transiting exoplanets Orion molecular cloud complex...
    9 KB (747 words) - 15:14, 25 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hills cloud
    the Hills cloud (also called the inner Oort cloud and inner cloud) is a theoretical vast circumstellar disc, interior to the Oort cloud, whose outer...
    22 KB (2,592 words) - 01:43, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oort cloud
    The Oort cloud (/ɔːrt, ʊərt/), sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances...
    56 KB (6,186 words) - 00:27, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
    L1688 cloud. These are presumed to be young stellar objects, including 16 classified as protostars, 123 T Tauri stars with dense circumstellar disks,...
    12 KB (1,316 words) - 01:57, 3 August 2024
  • A circumstellar envelope (CSE) is a part of a star that has a roughly spherical shape and is not gravitationally bound to the star core. Usually circumstellar...
    2 KB (198 words) - 07:50, 1 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Planetary nebula
    S2CID 17128522, A planetary nebula (PN) is an expanding ionized circumstellar cloud that was ejected during the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase of...
    54 KB (5,809 words) - 05:23, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Molecular cloud
    Interstellar ice List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules Nebula Orion molecular cloud complex Perseus molecular cloud Craig Kulesa. "Overview: Molecular...
    34 KB (3,752 words) - 00:45, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Habitable zone
    astronomy and astrobiology, the habitable zone (HZ), or more precisely the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), is the range of orbits around a star within which...
    134 KB (13,731 words) - 01:21, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
    of molecules that have been detected in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes, grouped by the number of component atoms. The chemical formula...
    141 KB (9,341 words) - 07:42, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Star formation
    Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming...
    48 KB (5,543 words) - 03:22, 13 October 2024
  • The interplanetary dust cloud, or zodiacal cloud (as the source of the zodiacal light), consists of cosmic dust (small particles floating in outer space)...
    24 KB (2,424 words) - 05:46, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for T Tauri star
    quickly: when they become visible (i.e. disperses surrounding circumstellar gas and dust cloud), the hydrogen in the center is already burning and they are...
    9 KB (928 words) - 20:03, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herbig Ae/Be star
    quickly: when they become visible (i.e. disperses surrounding circumstellar gas and dust cloud), the hydrogen in the center is already burning and they are...
    5 KB (567 words) - 21:27, 12 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Starlight
    a star by multiple scattering in an optically thick asymmetric circumstellar dust cloud. This mechanism was invoked by Bastien, Robert and Nadeau, to explain...
    14 KB (1,695 words) - 03:06, 17 July 2024
  • Circumstellar dust is cosmic dust around a star. It can be in the form of a spherical shell or a disc, e.g. an accretion disk. Circumstellar dust can be...
    4 KB (457 words) - 15:10, 2 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kepler's Supernova
    supernovae. There is evidence for interaction of the supernova ejecta with circumstellar matter from the progenitor star, which is unexpected for type Ia but...
    16 KB (1,680 words) - 10:25, 17 October 2024
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    Kuiper belt (redirect from Kuiper Cloud)
    The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU)...
    118 KB (13,219 words) - 07:50, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Betelgeuse
    credible possibility, given current research into these stars' complex circumstellar environment. Aboriginal groups in South Australia have shared oral tales...
    174 KB (18,522 words) - 15:46, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for VY Canis Majoris
    the mass of the Sun (M☉). It is surrounded by a complex asymmetric circumstellar envelope (CSE) caused by its mass loss. It produces strong molecular...
    67 KB (6,931 words) - 15:47, 10 September 2024
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