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- A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity ... Typically, giant stars have radii between 10 and 100 solar radii and ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- occurs in a stellar system such as the Solar System, the celestial bodies ... is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- of the object's mass (where r is the radius of the Earth, G is the gravitational ... 2.364×10−5 m1.5kg−0.5s−1 times the radius r (in meters) times the square ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- A typical neutron star has a mass between 1.35 and 2.1 solar masses ... its collapse contains (for example) three solar masses, then a neutron star ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- and is commonly given as being about 1.4 solar masses. ... limit is commonly given as being about 1.4 solar masses. ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- that if it were at the center of the Solar System, it would wholly engulf ... this resulted in an estimated radius of 3.84 × 108 km (240 million ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- commonly used for orbits of planets in the Solar System, but the same terms ... word for every orbitable body in the solar system (and beyond) is the ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- of a payback scheme: Construction of solar power satellites from lunar ... As there exists a vast amount of material to build with in the solar ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- Sun side, it is compressed because of the solar wind, and on the opposite ... form or change in response to changes in solar activity and the solar wind. ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected ... to be much lower, perhaps only 1 solar radius above the photosphere ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 00:46, 4 February 2023
- There are 240 known moons within the solar system, including 163 orbiting ... a gas giant can be regarded as a miniature solar system that contains precious ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- half that of the Sun (down to about 0.075 solar masses, which are brown dwarfs ... B1257+12.) The discoverers estimate its radius to be 1.5 times that of the ...10 KB (1,492 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun (or 1.5 solar masses) fuse hydrogen atoms ... a star's mass and its luminosity and radius. That is, for a given mass ...39 KB (5,825 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- that objects with a mass less than 0.07 solar masses for Population I objects ... If, however, the mass of the protostar is less than about 0.08 solar ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- called the heliosphere, is larger than the solar system itself and is characterized ... magnetosphere at times permit some of the solar wind particles to flow into ...23 KB (3,695 words) - 05:21, 5 November 2022
- crust of all the planets and moons in our solar system. It consists of two ... bombardment in the early history of the Solar System. A particularly large ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- The following table sets out some examples from our solar system. ... comets, asteroids, and so on, of the solar system (see n-body problem ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- quot; as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/pr ... requirement for planetary status in the Solar System. Our solar system ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- zone," a ring-shaped region with a radius of approximately 2500 kilometers ... ==The solar wind and magnetosphere== [[Image:Magnetosphere schematic ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- discovery expanded the boundaries of the Solar System for the first time ... points above the invariable plane of the solar system (regardless of the ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- concerning the stars and objects in the solar system. Ptolemy's geocentric ... to actually be ~23,450 radii), while the radius of the sphere of the fixed ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- are among the most massive objects in the Solar System outside the Sun and ... the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar ... Neptune also has the strongest winds of any planet in the solar system ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- him to solve any triangle. Based on his solar and lunar theories and his ... with a circumference of 21,600 and a radius of (rounded) 3438 units: ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- within an additional 39-picometer radius. The bonding between nearest ... emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, and solar cells. Some of its electronic ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- In the Solar System, Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is ... and others to regard it as a miniature Solar System, with objects of various ...26 KB (3,935 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with ... evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... solar system, which is located nearly a solar radius away from the center of ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- six percent of all known stars in the solar neighborhood. ... #039;s radius of approximately 0.009 solar radius. A white dwarf, then, ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... deflecting charged particles brought by the solar wind. The presence of water ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- tables, the assumed semidiameter (apparent radius) of the sun is 16 minutes ... however, as not all people on Earth use a solar-based calendar where the ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- designations for objects outside the solar system, to create a system ... (including planetary sciences and solar physics) references, physics ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar ... lies above the Sun's surface (1.068 solar radii from the Sun's ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- Such control is necessary for transistors, solar cells, microprocessors, semiconductor ... **LCDs and solar cells: Hydrogenated amorphous silicon is widely used ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- plasma (see astrophysical plasmas). In the solar system, the planet Jupiter ... * The solar wind * The interplanetary medium(the space between the planets) ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- |solar radius: |\begin{smallmatrix}R_\odot = 6.960 \times 10^{8}\end{smallmatrix} ... sequence star, it would be 8 times the solar radius and 62,000 times the Sun ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- through roughly 12 regular cycles per solar year, the Moon for millennia ... and Sun in the sky as revealed by a total solar eclipse offers further cause ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact ... *The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on March ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- * Heliocentric orbit: An orbit around the Sun. In our Solar System ... of rotation. These orbits occur at a radius of 24,360 Gm (0,1628 AU) ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... of the Earth. Of all the planets in the Solar System, it has the highest ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest ... known celestial pair combinations in the solar system, and because the barycenter ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- it. However, it persists in the outer solar atmosphere at roughly the ... The existence of deuterium on Earth, elsewhere in the Solar System ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- where θ is the angle, r is the radius or distance from the center, and n is the index number of the floret and c is a constant scaling factor ...18 KB (2,511 words) - 17:15, 23 October 2022
- of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had ... *Stokes radius in biochemistry *Stokes' theorem, in differential ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 10:37, 13 December 2023
- an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric and coaxial with ... Normal clocks therefore indicate solar time. Astronomers studying ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- ratio between the cable's radius at geosynchronous altitude ... Nuclear energy and solar power have been proposed, but generating ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- three limb bones, the humerus, ulna, and radius. The hand, or manus, which ... patches on their wing that help absorb solar radiation and thermoregulate ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
- stability, etc. vary widely depending on radius of the torus and radius of ... The solar cell developed at NJIT uses a carbon nanotubes complex, ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- not always—have an eyewall and radius of maximum winds that contract ... to their outermost closed isobar. If the radius is less than two degrees ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- for the motion of planets and moons in the solar system with exquisite accuracy ... stars in the Sun's vicinity during a solar eclipse. During the total ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
