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  • “If I download the locations and vectors of all these sightings to astrometrics . . .” a series of flashing points appeared, joined by faintly glowing lines that crisscrossed in several areas, most of which were systems with high-mass, high-gravity objects.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • “If I download the locations and vectors of all these sightings to astrometrics . . .” a series of flashing points appeared, joined by faintly glowing lines that crisscrossed in several areas, most of which were systems with high-mass, high-gravity objects.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Astronomers have pieces of the formation and evolutionary puzzle from the discovery of hundreds of high-mass planets.

    Second Smallest Exoplanet Found | Universe Today 2010

  • The material shrouds a natal high-mass star thought to be mostly responsible for the hourglass shape of the nebula due to high-speed winds more than 200 kilometers/second which eject material from the forming star deep within.

    Gemini's New Filters Reveal the Beauty of Star Birth | Universe Today 2010

  • Anaconda: the answer to your (refreshed) question is simple: there are two stars in V445 Pup (not one), and the shape of the primary is nothing like that of a star-forming region (the high-mass, white dwarf is spherical).

    Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

  • Did you see the words "explicitly on star-formation and high-mass stars to boot"?

    New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns | Universe Today 2009

  • If nature has new high-mass particles giving observable pair-production resonances at energies not accessible at the Tevatron, they could stand out in sharp relief above the standard model.

    LHC Restart John 2009

  • Nereid said: And, for avoidance of doubt, in this case the references need to be to papers, published in relevant peer-reviewed journals, explicitly on star-formation and high-mass stars to boot.

    New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns | Universe Today 2009

  • And, for avoidance of doubt, in this case the references need to be to papers, published in relevant peer-reviewed journals, explicitly on star-formation and high-mass stars to boot.

    New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns | Universe Today 2009

  • This find further tests the boundary between high-mass gas planets, like Jupiter, and the smallest brown dwarfs.

    Object Found in Space Delights Astronomers | Impact Lab 2007

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