💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Variable star"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| variablenoun | (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value. |
| helium variablenoun | (astronomy) A star in which the strength of the helium absorption lines vary periodically; at times appearing to be a helium star. |
| mira variablenoun | (astronomy) Any of a class of pulsating variable stars characterized by very red colours, pulsation periods longer than 100 days, and amplitudes greater than one magnitude in infrared and 2.5 magnitude at visual wavelengths. |
| runaway starnoun | (astronomy) A star that has a high velocity relative to its surroundings (typically the result of a supernova in a binary star system). |
| eclipsing binarynoun | (astronomy) Any of a class of extrinsic variable stars where changes in brightness are caused by stars eclipsing each other. |
| exotic starnoun | (astronomy) A hypothetical type of star composed of exotic matter. |
| starlightnoun | Light emitted from stars. |
| space velocitynoun | (astronomy) The velocity of a star relative to the Sun |
| visual magnitudenoun | (astronomy) The apparent magnitude of a star in the central part of the spectrum of visible light |
| quasi-starnoun | Alternative form of quasistar. [(astronomy, cosmology) A theoretical early universe object, with the outer layers of a star and a black hole for a stellar core. Theorized to be born of an ultramassive pre-stellar nebula collapse to an ultramassive protostar, and later birthing an intermediate mass black hole when the star's life ends.] |
| strange starnoun | (astronomy) A hypothetical quark star made of strange matter. |
| starburst galaxynoun | (astronomy) A galaxy that is undergoing a high rate of star formation |
| compact starnoun | (astronomy) A type of celestial body that collectively refers to white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes and exotic stars. |
| stellar windnoun | (astronomy) The equivalent of solar wind associated with a star not restricted to being the Sun. |
| starburstnoun | (astronomy) A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation. |
| antistarnoun | (astrophysics) A conjectured type of star formed from antimatter. |
| protostarnoun | (astronomy) A collection of gas and dust in space with high temperature that usually grows to the point of beginning nuclear fusion and becoming a star. |
| stellaritynoun | (astronomy) A parameter (between 0.0 and 1.0), generated by a neural network, that seeks to characterize how stellar an observed astronomical object is. |
| dark starnoun | (astronomy, physics) An extremely bright and massive hypothetical astrophysical object whose illumination is powered by annihilation of dark-matter particles and anti-particles (or by self-annihilation if they are Majorana particles). |
| boson starnoun | (astrophysics) A theoretical type of heavenly body composed of a form of boson that is self-repelling, what should be highly dense and bend spacetime in a manner approaching that of a black hole. |
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