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  2. Betelgeuse - Wikipedia

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    Radio-telescope images taken in 1998 confirm that Betelgeuse has a highly complex atmosphere, [158] with a temperature of 3,450 ± 850 K, similar to that recorded on the star's surface but much lower than surrounding gas in the same region. [158] [159] The VLA images also show this lower-temperature gas progressively cools as it extends outward ...

  3. Compact object - Wikipedia

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    A star in this hypothetical state is called a "quark star" or more specifically a "strange star". The pulsar 3C58 has been suggested as a possible quark star. Most neutron stars are thought to hold a core of quark matter but this has proven difficult to determine observationally. [citation needed]

  4. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.

  5. Astronomical object - Wikipedia

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    The evolving star may eject some portion of its atmosphere to form a nebula, either steadily to form a planetary nebula or in a supernova explosion that leaves a remnant. Depending on the initial mass of the star and the presence or absence of a companion, a star may spend the last part of its life as a compact object ; either a white dwarf ...

  6. NASA discovers the 'loneliest' star in the universe - AOL

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    "The unusual object, called CX330, was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009," according to a NASA news press release. It's closest neighboring star formation is over a thousand light ...

  7. Olbers's paradox - Wikipedia

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    But the total radiation emitted by a star (or other cosmic object) is at most equal to the total nuclear binding energy of isotopes in the star. For the density of the observable universe of about 4.6×10 −28 kg/m 3 and given the known abundance of the chemical elements, the corresponding maximal radiation energy density of 9.2×10 −31 kg/m ...

  8. Hypothetical star - Wikipedia

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    A final state for a star in the far future (10 1500 years) of the universe, when all matter is transmuted to iron via quantum tunneling. — The universe isn't old enough for this form to come into existence. MECO: A hypothetical alternative to black holes. Q0957+561: Planck star: A star where the energy density is around the Planck density.

  9. Astronomers Found the Ancient Light Source That Literally ...

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    Here's how faint dwarf galaxies, revealed by JWST, sparked the reionization epoch and ended the universe's dark ages with their powerful radiation. Astronomers Found the Ancient Light Source That ...