Crossword clues for protostar
protostar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context star English) A collection of gas and dust in space with high temperature that usually grows to the point of beginning nuclear fusion and becoming a star.
Wikipedia
ProtoStar Ltd is a private part incorporated in Bermuda, with U.S. operations based in San Francisco, California and Asian operations based in Singapore. ProtoStar intended to operate an initial fleet of three geostationary satellites. Two satellites were acquired and launched. ProtoStar's anchor customer, Dish TV India Limited, is the largest direct-to-home television operator in India.
Usage examples of "protostar".
The seedship was deep in a protostar, hiding behind the distortion of geometry and the complete hash of electromagnetic energy.
Once the mass of a protostar reached a threshold level, it would ignite in a fusion reaction that would generate a fierce stellar wind, to blow away the remnants of the nursery nebula.
Listed erroneously on most charts as a Gamma Class navigation hazard - which usually meant an unlocated black hole - the Bantha was actually a protostar, a small cloud of relatively cool gas slowly contracting to become a star.
It took only a few minutes of this bombardment before the core of the protostar lit up again even more brightly as one supply vessel after another disintegrated in the heat of its own detonating cargo.
The seedship buried itself in a heating protostar, raising shields against the infalling ice and stone.
It called for twelve starships to cross 980 light-years of space to a not-yet-formed protostar in the Constellation of Aquila.
The protostar, which project planners had dubbed Sanctuary, was a cloud of gas and dust whose central regions glowed with dull red light.
The protostar illuminated the gas and dust around it, causing the cloud to shine from within with a deep rose tint.
Tarns gave a quick report, reporting on the status of the expedition since its arrival at the Sanctuary protostar, including the loss of the scout boat during the initial explorations.
But there were occasional images of the protostar, embedded at the heart of the cloud.
On the twentieth attempt, he arrived in a place that was vastly different from the protostar universe.
The protostar swelled, gathering power, ramping up intensity until the light inside his skull washed away the woody glow of the chamber in which he hung.
I could prove that that eddy is a protostar in the process of condensation!
The asteroids were detritus from the collapsing protostar, insufficient material to coalesce into a planet.
Those jets of ionized molecular gas generated by the protostars, those Herbig-Haro formations?