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  • adjective astronomy, of a star Having similar characteristics to those of the Sun.

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  • As we have yet to even understand why, for example, the outcomes of nebulae produce say many small stars with a few massive ones or just a whole lot of medium solar-type stars.

    If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET | Universe Today 2010

  • The asteroseismic potential of Kepler: first results for solar-type stars

    Surf's Up! Astronomers Ride Stellar Waves | Universe Today 2010

  • The abundant amount of oxygen and absence of hydrogen indicate that the destroyed star was a white dwarf, the end phase of a solar-type star that has burned its hydrogen leaving a high concentration of oxygen.

    Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today 2010

  • People care not only what you say, but how you vote. now, solving our national energy crisis requires, as I've mentioned an all-of-the-above approach, and that'll require aggressive development of alternative energies like wind, solar-type and bio-fuels.

    CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2008 2008

  • More intriguing still, certain structures, such as solar-type stars, depend for their characteristic features on wildly improbable numerical accidents that combine together fundamental constants from distinct branches of physics.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • More intriguing still, certain structures, such as solar-type stars, depend for their characteristic features on wildly improbable numerical accidents that combine together fundamental constants from distinct branches of physics.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • More intriguing still, certain structures, such as solar-type stars, depend for their characteristic features on wildly improbable numerical accidents that combine together fundamental constants from distinct branches of physics.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • More intriguing still, certain structures, such as solar-type stars, depend for their characteristic features on wildly improbable numerical accidents that combine together fundamental constants from distinct branches of physics.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • This is the first debris disk to be resolved in scattered light around a solar-type star.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: December 2004 Archives 2004

  • Baliunas, S., and R. Jastrow, 1990: Evidence for long-term brightness changes of solar-type stars.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Kevin Grandia 2010

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