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  • adjective astronomy Of or pertaining to a protostar.

Etymologies

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proto- +‎ stellar.

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Examples

  • For years, astronomers have known that newly formed stars fire powerful beams of gas into space called "protostellar jets."

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • These meteorites are thought to retain the composition of the protostellar Sun and thus not affected by settling of heavy elements.

    Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010

  • The way planets form, by coalescence from the protostellar nebula, probably makes similarly-sized binary planets unlikely - each planet evolved from an object which pretty much swept its orbit clear of other planet-building material.

    mikandra: questions, big and small mikandra 2010

  • Galaxies and supernovae, protostellar jets and pulsars: these pictures of stars from the depths of the ...

    Daniel Bruno Sanz: Last Call to be World Leader 2009

  • The kuub is a region of dense interstellar gasses, protostellar debris and energetic forces.

    On the Spot at BSC – Thomas Harlan interview 2009

  • In transluminal space, the physical protostellar matter collecting in the wasteland of the kuub was represented by both a gravity dimple and a quantum-level spore, or nugget, which interacted with the translateral quantum-frame state of a ship much as a physical rock would interact–that is, smash into–the physical hull of a ship in realspace.

    Land of the Dead by Thomas Harlan review 2009

  • Instead, he merely asked in a conversational tone, "Any evidence of large solid obstructions or protostellar objects within the cloud?"

    Trek to Madworld Goldin, Stephen 1978

  • Pat Hartigan of Rice University and I along with other collaborators produced movies that provide a new perspective on protostellar jets as they blast away from their newly formed stars.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Ultimately, this data will guide the development of a theory of protostellar evolution.

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

  • By examining how these properties vary with stellar density (i.e. clusters vs. groups vs. isolation) and the properties of the surrounding molecular cloud; we can directly measure how the surrounding environment influences protostellar evolution, and consequently, the formation of stars and planetary systems.

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

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