Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that Jan...
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In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred...
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In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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Metallicity (redirect from Stellar metallicity)
different populations of stars. These became commonly known as population I (metal-rich) and population II (metal-poor) stars. A third, earliest stellar population...
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Galactic Center (section Stellar population)
Vanhollebeke, E.; Groenewegen, M. A. T.; Girardi, L. (April 2009). "Stellar populations in the Galactic bulge. Modelling the Galactic bulge with TRILEGAL"...
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In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses...
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Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension...
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R. Michael Rich (section Stellar populations)
Astronomical Union. Rich pioneered the modern study of the central bulge/bar stellar population of the Milky Way galaxy, obtaining the first spectroscopy and metal...
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Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
affects the strength of its stellar wind. Older, population II stars have substantially less metallicity than the younger, population I stars due to the composition...
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Population may also refer to: Statistical population, a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment Stellar population...
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