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- verb Present participle of
starburst .
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Examples
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This is an infrared image of a starbursting Seyfert galaxy and is pretty cool.
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Jason stared straight up into a curious infinity of falling droplets, white with reflected light, starbursting in perfect symmetry around the vertical axis.
The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003
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Jason stared straight up into a curious infinity of falling droplets, white with reflected light, starbursting in perfect symmetry around the vertical axis.
The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003
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Jason stared straight up into a curious infinity of falling droplets, white with reflected light, starbursting in perfect symmetry around the vertical axis.
The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003
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"This is the first time that we've been able to show this clear link between the most energetic starbursting galaxies in the early universe and the most massive galaxies in the present day," lead scientist Ryan Hickox, of Dartmouth College and England's Durham University, said in a statement.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Freeman 2012
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Our targets range from the well-resolved R136 in 30 Dor in the LMC (the nearest super star cluster) and M82 (the nearest starbursting galaxy) to about half a dozen other nearby galaxies that sample a wide range of star-formation rates and environments.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2009
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Our targets range from the well-resolved R136 in 30 Dor in the LMC (the nearest super star cluster) and M82 (the nearest starbursting galaxy) to about half a dozen other nearby galaxies that sample a wide range of star-formation rates and environments.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2009
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Our targets range from the well-resolved R136 in 30 Dor in the LMC (the nearest super star cluster) and M82 (the nearest starbursting galaxy) to about half a dozen other nearby galaxies that sample a wide range of star-formation rates and environments.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2009
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Our targets range from the well-resolved R136 in 30 Dor in the LMC (the nearest super star cluster) and M82 (the nearest starbursting galaxy) to about half a dozen other nearby galaxies that sample a wide range of star-formation rates and environments.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2009
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