Search results for "Solar radius" - New World Encyclopedia

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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 ...
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  • 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) - 07:51, 7 September 2023
  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The following table sets out some examples from our solar system. ... comets, asteroids, and so on, of the solar system (see n-body problem ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • discovery expanded the boundaries of the Solar System for the first time ... points above the invariable plane of the solar system (regardless of the ...
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