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- noun Plural form of
starquake .
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Examples
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They know that the sun rings like a gong and shivers with "starquakes" - which may reveal as much about its interior as earthquakes do about Earth's-but are stumped by where the quakes and rings come from.
Mysteries Of The Sun 2008
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The twisting of magnetic field lines in magnetars give rise to 'starquakes', which will eventually lead to an intense soft gamma-ray burst.
Scientific Blogging 2008
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When looking at stars, COROT is able to detect 'starquakes', acoustical waves generated deep inside a star that send ripples across a star's surface, altering its brightness.
Scientific Blogging 2008
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And it's those starquakes, shooting out streams of charged particles and radiation, that cause energy bursts like the one that hit Earth on Aug. 27.
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That force can periodically crack the star's solid metal crust, causing tremendous "" starquakes. ''
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As observed by the European Space Agency/NASA jointly owned spacecraft named the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), powerful starquakes are being set off across the Sun when great solar flares explode above its surface.
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They resorted to analyzing high-frequency oscillations in the star's brightness that are caused by "starquakes."
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They resorted to analyzing high-frequency oscillations in the star's brightness that are caused by "starquakes."
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They resorted to analyzing high-frequency oscillations in the star's brightness that are caused by "starquakes."
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The scientists found that they could also use the telescope to pick up other changes in brightness caused by starquakes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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