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  2. Stellar core - Wikipedia

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    Once a star has converted all the hydrogen in its core into helium, the core is no longer able to support itself and begins to collapse. It heats up and becomes hot enough for hydrogen in a shell outside the core to start fusion. The core continues to collapse and the outer layers of the star expand. At this stage, the star is a subgiant. Very ...

  3. Iron star - Wikipedia

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    An iron star is a hypothetical type of compact star that could occur in the universe in the extremely far future, after perhaps 10 1500 years.. The premise behind the formation of iron stars states that cold fusion occurring via quantum tunnelling would cause the light nuclei in ordinary matter to fuse into iron-56 nuclei.

  4. Iron meteorite - Wikipedia

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    Iron meteorites, also called siderites or ferrous meteorites, are a type of meteorite that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases: kamacite and taenite. Most iron meteorites originate from cores of planetesimals, [3] with the exception of the IIE iron meteorite group. [4]

  5. Stellar corona - Wikipedia

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    A corona (pl.: coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere. It is a hot but relatively dim region of plasma populated by intermittent coronal structures known as solar prominences or filaments. The Sun's corona lies above the chromosphere and extends millions of kilometres into outer space.

  6. Planetary core - Wikipedia

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    All of the rocky inner planets, as well as the moon, have an iron-dominant core. Venus and Mars have an additional major element in the core. Venus’ core is believed to be iron-nickel, similarly to Earth. Mars, on the other hand, is believed to have an iron-sulfur core and is separated into an outer liquid layer around an inner solid core. [20]

  7. Planetary differentiation - Wikipedia

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    The layers of the Earth, a differentiated planetary body. In planetary science, planetary differentiation is the process by which the chemical elements of a planetary body accumulate in different areas of that body, due to their physical or chemical behavior (e.g. density and chemical affinities).

  8. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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    emission line nebula The size is likely larger. The paper only describes the maximal distance to the nucleus and not the entire size. nebula around the Teacup galaxy: 363,000 ly (111,000 pc) [20] ionized nebula part of the circumgalactic medium around the Teacup galaxy, illuminated by the AGN: Lyman-alpha blob 1: 300,000 ly (92,000 pc) [21] LαB

  9. Stellar structure - Wikipedia

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    For energy transport refer to Radiative transfer.. The different transport mechanisms of high-mass, intermediate-mass and low-mass stars. Different layers of the stars transport heat up and outwards in different ways, primarily convection and radiative transfer, but thermal conduction is important in white dwarfs.