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n. (context astronomy English) A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.
Wikipedia
Starquake may refer to:
- Starquake (astrophysics), an astrophysical phenomenon when the crust of a neutron star undergoes a sudden adjustment
- Starquake (video game), a 1984 computer game
- Starquake (novel), a 1989 novel by Robert L. Forward
Starquake is an arcade adventure, platform and maze game written by Stephen Crow and published by Bubble Bus Software in 1985. It was released for Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Tatung Einstein (all 1985), the BBC Micro (1987) and IBM Compatible and Atari ST (both 1988). An Amiga version was planned for 1991 but was never released.
Starquake is a science fiction novel written and published in 1985 by Robert L. Forward as a sequel to his novel Dragon's Egg. It is about the life of the Cheela civilization, creatures who live on a neutron star named Dragon's Egg, struggling to recover from a disastrous starquake. The novel was listed by theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll as his favorite science fiction novel.
Usage examples of "starquake".
No profound seismological disturbances of the kind associated with starquake, sir.
And if starquake could draw in powerful ships from such distances, then what forces raged within the Singularity itself?
The little station edged among increasingly powerful surgings as the effects of starquake split the dimensions.
And then, through the showering debris and the fury of starquake, Buchanan glimpsed the hauntingly beautiful tunnel.
The latest on core emission is that condition starquake is now in abeyance.
Should the core be solid, starquakes are expected – a shifting of the matter under enormous stress in the interior of the star.
Such starquakes should produce a discontinuous change in the period of rotation of the neutron star.
The evidence that these are truly new planets and not starquakes on the neutron star surface (or something) is now overwhelming—or, as Wolszczan put it, "irrefutable".
The gravity waves from the starquakes — what they have to tell about the interior —"
And as the mass down there increases, the rotation of the neutron star will glitch—the neutron star must suffer starquakes, quite regularly.