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- adjective astronomy Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a
star
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Examples
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They suspect it to be a large prestellar mass that has somehow wandered into this galaxy.
Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999
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They suspect it to be a large prestellar mass that has somehow wandered into this galaxy.
Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999
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Yet they also discovered that the object is ejecting streams of high-velocity gas from its center, confirming that some sort of preliminary mass has already formed and the object has developed beyond the prestellar phase.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Astronomers think L1448-IRS2E is in between the prestellar phase, when a particularly dense region of a molecular cloud first begins to clump together, and the protostar phase, when gravity has pulled enough material together to form a dense, hot core out of the surrounding envelope.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Yet they also discovered that the object is ejecting streams of high-velocity gas from its center, confirming that some sort of preliminary mass has already formed and the object has developed beyond the prestellar phase.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Astronomers think L1448-IRS2E is in between the prestellar phase, when a particularly dense region of a molecular cloud first begins to clump together, and the protostar phase, when gravity has pulled enough material together to form a dense, hot core out of the surrounding envelope.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Yet they also discovered that the object is ejecting streams of high-velocity gas from its center, confirming that some sort of preliminary mass has already formed and the object has developed beyond the prestellar phase.
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Astronomers think L1448-IRS2E is in between the prestellar phase, when a particularly dense region of a molecular cloud first begins to clump together, and the protostar phase, when gravity has pulled enough material together to form a dense, hot core out of the surrounding envelope.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Astronomers think L1448-IRS2E is in between the prestellar phase, when a particularly dense region of a molecular cloud first begins to clump together, and the protostar phase, when gravity has pulled enough material together to form a dense, hot core out of the surrounding envelope.
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Yet they also discovered that the object is ejecting streams of high-velocity gas from its center, confirming that some sort of preliminary mass has already formed and the object has developed beyond the prestellar phase.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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