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• accretion disk
• ambipolar diffusion
• astroseismology
• asymmetric drift
• asymptotic giant branch
• Baade-Wesselink method
• Bailey types
• beat Cepheid
• Becklin-Neugebauer Object
• bipolar flow
• Blaauw mechanism
• black dwarf
• black hole
• Blazhko effect
• blue giant
• blue horizontal-branch star
• blue straggler
• blue supergiant
• brown dwarf
• bump Cepheid
• carbon burning
• carbon star
• carbon-nitrogen cycle
• Cepheid variable
• Chandrasekhar limit
• circumstellar maser
• close binary
• color excess
• color index
• color-magnitude diagram
• combined magnitude
• common-envelope star
• convective envelope
• convective overshoot
• cooling timescale
• core, stellar
• corona
• degenerate star
• differential rotation
• dust disk
• dynamical timescale
• Eddington limit
• entrainment
• envelope
• extreme horizontal branch star
• final helium flash object
• flare
• flare star
• flickering
• Fokker-Planck equation
• gamma-ray burst
• giant branch
• giant star
• glitch
• gravitational instability
• halo population
• Hayashi track
• heavy element
• helium burning
• helium flash
• helium shell flash
• Henyey track
• Herbig Ae/Be star
• Hertzsprung Gap
• horizontal branch
• Hertzspung-Russell diagram
• hot spot
• hydrogen burning
• hydrostatic equilibrium
• hypergiant
• hypernova
• instability strip
• interacting binary
• intermediate population star
• interstellar distances
• intrinsic color index
• inverse P Cygni profile
• Jean's length
• Jean's mass
• jet
• Kelvin-Helmholtz contraction
• Kramer's law
• light curve
• light element
• lithium depletion boundary
• luminosity class
• macroturbulence
• magnetar
• magnetic cataclysmic variable
• magnetic star
• main sequence
• main-sequence fitting
• main-sequence turnoff
• mass function
• mass loss
• mass transfer
• mass-luminosity relation
• mass-luminosity-radius relation
• mass-radius relation
• mean parallax
• microquasar
• microturbulence
• millisecond pulsar
• molecular cloud
• Morgan-Keenan classification
• neutron star
• neutronium
• non-radial pulsation
• nova
• nuclear timescale
• nucleosynthesis
• oblique rotator
• OB star
• Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
• overcontact binary
• P Cygni profile
• period-age relation
• period-luminosity relation
• period-mass relation
• period-spectra relation
• planetary nebula
• population
• Population I
• Population II
• Population III
• population types
• p-process
• pre-main-sequence object
• proton-proton chain
• protoplanetary nebula
• pulsar
• pulsar timing noise
• pulsar wind nebula
• pulsating variable
• radial pulsation
• red dwarf
• red giant
• red giant tip
• red supergiant
• regenerated disk
• relaxation
• Roche lobe
• r-process
• RR Lyrae star
• Salpeter function
• Schonberg-Chandrasekhar limit
• Schwarzschild radius
• secondary minimum
• shell burning
• shell star
• soft gamma repeater
• source
• speckle interferometry
• spectral type
• spin-down
• Spitzer-Schwarzschild mechanism
• s-process
• standard candle
• standard star
• star
• star streaming
• starquake
• stars, evolution
• stars, lifetimes
• stars, masses
• stars, numbers
• stars, sizes
• stars, temperatures
• stellar atmosphere
• stellar wind
• subdwarf
• subgiant
• subluminous star
• superflare
• supergiant
• super-hump
• supernova
• super-outburst
• symbiotic star
• triple-alpha process
• T Tauri star
• turnoff point
• UBV system
• Urca process
• UV Ceti star
• variable star
• velocity curve
• velocity dispersion
• Vogt-Russell theorem
• white dwarf
• Wolf-Rayet star
• X-ray binary
• X-ray burst
• X-ray jet variable
• X-ray nova
• X-ray pulsar
• young stellar object
• zero-age main sequence
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