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  2. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.

  3. Shrinking space - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to have the shrinking property [1] or to be a shrinking space if every open cover admits a shrinking. A shrinking of an open cover is another open cover indexed by the same indexing set, with the property that the closure of each open set in the shrinking lies inside the corresponding original open set.

  4. Five-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    A five-dimensional space is a space with five dimensions. In mathematics , a sequence of N numbers can represent a location in an N -dimensional space . If interpreted physically, that is one more than the usual three spatial dimensions and the fourth dimension of time used in relativistic physics .

  5. Shrink–swell capacity - Wikipedia

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    Soils with this shrink-swell capacity fall under the soil order of Vertisols. [6] As these soils dry, deep cracks can form on the surface, which then allows water to penetrate to deeper levels of the soil. [7] This can cause the swelling of these soils to become cyclical, with periods of both shrinking and swelling.

  6. Outer space - Wikipedia

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    Deep space is defined by the United States government as all of outer space which lies further from Earth than a typical low-Earth-orbit, thus assigning the Moon to deep-space. [118] Other definitions vary the starting point of deep-space from, "That which lies beyond the orbit of the moon," to "That which lies beyond the farthest reaches of ...

  7. Space physics - Wikipedia

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    Space physics, also known as space plasma physics, is the study of naturally occurring plasmas within Earth's upper atmosphere and the rest of the Solar System. It includes the topics of aeronomy , aurorae , planetary ionospheres and magnetospheres , radiation belts , and space weather (collectively known as solar-terrestrial physics [ 1 ] ).

  8. The word has been used for more than 700 years but Taylor Swift’s song “Fortnight” led many curious listeners to look up the word, Merriam-Webster said. “It remains to be seen whether ...

  9. Space weather - Wikipedia

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    The term "space weather" came into usage in the late 1950s as the space age began and satellites began to measure the space environment. [2] The term regained popularity in the 1990s along with the belief that space's impact on human systems demanded a more coordinated research and application framework.