| As long as you bear in mind that you're dealing with a toy, you might not be too bothered by the less than stellar quality. |
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| Turns out television ratings for the CBC's coverage of championship curling have been less than stellar. |
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| That ageless veteran, Michael Collins, turned in another stellar performance in a defensive unit that was impregnable. |
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| Whether it's a recreational, road, mountain, tandem or recumbent bike you're after, you'll find a stellar product that won't require a roof rack. |
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| If you really dig your heels into the sand, you won't get knocked off your feet when your stellar reputation is in question. |
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| My love's high room looks down on trees, almond and plum, and to their stellar galleries bees and rosellas come. |
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| We got a great producer's rep on board to help us negotiate our way through distribution and he's been doing a stellar job. |
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| Shortly after the stellar material collapses, a light-producing shock wave begins to fan out from the region of collapse. |
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| On the other hand, the roll-call of stellar names should be enough to impress even the most sceptical. |
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| Meindl returns with a stellar serving of thumping grooves, rolling basslines, stabby synths, dubbed-out chords, precision drum hits and more. |
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| So he goes out and wins 20 games and is stellar in the play-offs and now the Yankees have to sign him or they look like schmucks. |
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| The stellar performance of the troupe kept the crowds going all through the evening. |
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| We all expected someone equally stellar, and a lot of names were bandied about in tingly expectation. |
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| The stellar shindig featured various celebrity types, some free snacks and drinks, and lots of great atmosphere. |
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| So many, perhaps most, of these so-called planetary systems may in fact be stellar or brown dwarf binaries. |
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| In binary systems both stellar bodies orbit around a common center of mass. |
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| All three leads are simply stellar in their roles and the interactions ring absolutely true. |
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| Landron's Muscadets are stellar, and I did not know that we would be getting in a bit of Jo's vin mousseux as well. |
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| So often, when an old bluesman makes a new album, he's joined by a stellar cast of rock acolytes, paying their respects. |
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| Brad Pitt, who heads a stellar cast as the unconquerable hero Achilles, was intrigued by his complex, multi-faceted character. |
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| A strong script, able direction, and a stellar cast who underplay their roles make it very worthy of at least a rental. |
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| The outfits they put her in throughout this year were stellar, showing ample leg and wonderfully accenting her bosom. |
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| Werther's main aria, I think, was stellar and received lots of applause and bravos. |
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| The team, backed by his stellar extra-period netminding, won an NHL-record 10 consecutive overtime games that year. |
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| Craig Anderson continues to provide stellar netminding for Ottawa, as he stopped 31 of 32 shots. |
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| The spectral classes O and B are subdivided into numbered subclasses by stellar mass and surface temperature. |
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| Kron was seemingly the first who considered the hypothesis that spottedness of the stellar surface was causing these distortions. |
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| The one problem with the story of stellar nucleosynthesis as developed in the 1950s was that it could not explain where helium came from. |
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| His stellar career embraces comedy and drama and crosses media from television and movies to the stage and the recording arts. |
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| One-half of the general problem of stellar atmospheres revolves around the solution of the equation of radiative transfer. |
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| I'd be remiss not to mention two of my dear friends, Robbie Ellis and Chris Hero, who are both stellar, stand-up guys. |
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| Astronomers know little about the strength of stellar winds around young stars and red dwarfs. |
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| The dust would redden their outgoing starlight, thereby making them look like an older stellar population. |
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| I also worked with the Voyager photopolarimeter team that observed stellar occultations of Saturn's rings. |
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| The only other notable performance might be Gordon Tanner's stellar turn as the thoroughly odious Bruce. |
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| This synthesis of nuclear physics and stellar astronomy has led us to four significant conclusions. |
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| Thus in 1495 Pico della Mirandola dismissed divinatory astrology as a confusion of real physical planets with stellar divinities. |
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| The remnant stellar core in the centre is now sending out a flood of ultraviolet light into the surrounding gas. |
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| It has been used for observations ranging from galaxy structure to stellar evolution. |
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| And a trio of roughly Earth-sized planets was found in 2002 to orbit a dense stellar corpse known as a neutron star. |
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| It is also the first disk imaged around an M-type red dwarf, the most common type of star in the stellar neighborhood around the Sun. |
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| Because planets are so dim compared to stars, technology has not been able to spot them amid stellar glare. |
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| I researched my vet and found that although one nearby was okay, one only a short distance further had a stellar reputation. |
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| Astronomers see these processes occurring in other stars and witness outbursts and oscillations in stellar sizes on all sorts of time scales. |
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| After about three years concentrating on a mathematical theory of stellar structure, Milne turned his attention to cosmology. |
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| The Great Pyramid could have functioned as a stellar observatory during its construction. |
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| He has photographed enough stellar nebula, white dwarfs and pinwheel galaxies to fill many a photo album. |
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| Most theories of stellar evolution portray stars as lone entities or perhaps in a pair with one other star. |
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| At each stage, mass is lost, the stellar structure changes, and the star recycles chemical elements into space. |
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| The club's fortunes were considered to be inextricably entwined with those of their, supposedly, one stellar performer. |
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| The audience loved him, but he seemed oddly unaware of the crowd, as if he was a star actor giving a stellar performance to a television camera. |
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| This double disc features some of last year's best, a stellar line-up featuring the cream of the crop. |
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| They won't risk tarnishing their reputation by recommending anyone who is not a stellar performer. |
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| His service in the Senate, while not describable as stellar, has featured some important moments of gravity and responsibility. |
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| Nonetheless, the date featured a stellar line-up of talent and those in attendance were quite appreciative. |
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| Director Stephen Daldry's experience in the theatre enables him to coax extraordinary performances from a stellar cast. |
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| One of the best soap opera parodies on television, Soap ran for four seasons and featured a stellar cast of players. |
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| In many cases, soldiers who were not stellar performers in the rear not only rose to the challenge but also impressed us every day. |
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| This might sound a bit like adverts for trips to Mars that are coming soon, but in Sweden, their absent hero has a stellar quality. |
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| Befitting such a stellar cast, the performances were superlative throughout. |
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| Bensusan has established himself as a compelling concert performer and a stellar contributor to worldwide music festivals. |
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| A stellar career has included stints as Poet in Residence at the Frost Place, New Hampshire, and Writer in Residence at Trinity College. |
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| They cannot promise their IPO companies stellar research ratings or even coverage. |
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| It's an exceptional read, a stellar reference, and a one-of-a-kind conversation partner for the trip. |
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| The exhibition provided a stellar chance to feature the work of five female artists from and for the Haitian art community. |
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| Not cheap but worth it, considering the stellar quality of the food and the setting, which could be mistaken for a small, exclusive club. |
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| Somewhere in a parallel universe a stellar career in marketing is unfolding. |
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| Some of the features are really quite stellar, while others seem half-baked. |
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| He had, indeed has, a sort of stellar quality unmatched by all but one or two of his former colleagues in the Australian foreign service. |
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| He had stellar academic credentials, a tremendous background, had succeeded at everything he had done. |
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| Instilling these values guaranteed my friend a stellar credit rating and history. |
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| Estrada is a wonderful nominee, with stellar credentials and a record that would be the envy of practically any lawyer. |
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| Its not stellar video quality, but its far better than say Crimes and Misdemeanors, which I hope to get reviewed soon as well. |
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| The image quality isn't stellar, but as Cohen points out in the commentary, the movie looks good for a non-studio effort. |
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| Such a massive star has strong stellar winds that can clear away the gas around it and form a wind-blown bubble. |
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| Both stellar field marshals left that school with low marks, which may say quite a lot for the stiffness of its entrance exam. |
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| After their stellar performance at Candlefest the other week, I can't wait to watch them do a headline set. |
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| And of course, his record on preemptive military strikes is not exactly stellar either. |
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| He is currently studying jazz at Humber College and performed a stellar piano jazz number accompanied by trumpet, string bass and drums. |
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| We now know that stellar outflows produce an enormous amount of water and we know that our lives depend on water. |
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| Vastly outshone by their brighter stellar brethren, these not-quite-stars are extremely difficult to detect. |
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| We have completed the most extensive survey to date for low mass stellar and substellar companions to white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. |
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| The series I thought treated these stories too superficially in the time allotted, but a stellar cast makes the most of it. |
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| Please pardon the less than stellar posts that have taken over this space this week. |
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| In its less stellar moments, the songwriting can be a bit of a yawn-fest with cliched choruses that are repeated ad nauseam. |
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| Astronomers have long exploited this correlation between age and color to study the ages of stellar populations in star clusters and galaxies. |
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| I insisted that Barrett belonged on the All-Star team, citing his batting average 'in the clutch' and stellar fielding percentage. |
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| The film is cool, geometric take on an urban call girl's life, with a stellar perf by the late Katrin Cartlidge. |
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| There's no question that as a group, the Dow industrials have not been this year's stellar performers. |
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| Carter was never content to merely arrange the music and conduct his stellar orchestra. |
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| A superbly idiomatic collaboration between a virtuoso conductor and a stellar soloist! |
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| Each day, the Observatory took stellar readings to correct the Standard Clock. |
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| His Las Vegas-style lounge stylings were supported by a crackerjack band featuring a stellar four-piece horn section. |
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| Their espresso machine was on the fritz so we opted for the less than stellar regular coffee. |
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| The pressure was on a year in advance to come up with stellar costuming worthy of the star-studded gala performance at Wortham Theater Center. |
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| Kudos as well to Gordon whose pipes and gams were in fine form on opening night, giving a stellar spin on this seminal musical theatre role. |
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| Did it create a huge sense of pressure, coming from this kind of stellar background and attempting to make a name as an actress for herself? |
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| In the series decider, he took seven wickets to play a stellar role in the victory. |
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| Missile guidance is provided by an inertial navigation system, supported by stellar navigation. |
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| The stellar ejecta from the explosion initially trail behind the shock wave. |
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| The stellar wind from the red dwarf star removes the dust in the debris disk by causing the dust to slowly spiral into the star. |
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| If the energy from stellar explosions doesn't destroy them, ultraviolet light from nearby ultraluminous stars will. |
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| Based on extrasolar planet discoveries in our own stellar neighborhood, astronomers predicted that seventeen planets should have been discovered. |
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| Edward already owns thousands of books from the many stellar authors that have graced RJ Julia Booksellers. |
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| Add to that some solid performances from a stellar cast, notably an outstanding turn by Johnny Depp, and you have all the ingredients for a rollicking good tale. |
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| At least the selection of stellar performers should intersect with the tastes of someone on your Christmas list and save you both some embarrassment. |
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| What each one of them inwardly pined for, although unable to ascertain it or admit it openly once they had, was the olden days of stellar verdure. |
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| Its mysterious behavior forced spectroscopists to retune their models of stellar structure, allowing for fusion in places much closer to the stars' surface. |
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| Violent events such as stellar flares, supernovae and the explosion of galactic nuclei produce a concoction of subatomic particles, primarily protons and electrons. |
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| In the few past years, polarimetric observations with the VLT have led to the discovery of magnetic fields in a large number of stellar objects in late evolutionary stages. |
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| She has had a stellar career in the scientific field and if she was married to a garbage collector would be an ornament to the gubernatorial office. |
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| Altman must pull the strings for a stellar cast of 48, while interweaving maybe 20 storylines into a coherent whole with the aid of two observers. |
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| So all things considered Steve Waugh is equipped to become a stellar media performer, and which seems almost mandatory when a legend now leaves the crease. |
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| Saints like Ramanuja and the Nayanmars, have played a stellar role in perfecting the formula for purifying oneself through devotion in order to qualify for the kingdom of God. |
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| The divergence in success between the two black artillery battalions at Bastogne, nevertheless, does not detract from the stellar performance of the cannoneers. |
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| The aluminum chassis has decent, but not stellar, ride quality. |
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| Dwarf irregular galaxies are probably fairly old stellar systems whose chemical and physical properties may be the result of the process of slow evolution. |
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| In the United States three primary artificial fats have been introduced including Olestra, Simplesse, and Stellar. |
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| The video is transferred fairly well onto disc, and while some of it isn't super stellar, I'm amazed that a low-budget film can look this good to begin with. |
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| In addition to her stellar body of work, she will always be remembered for being the no-nonsense half of bogie and Bacall. |
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| Perhaps thanks to the surf and turf and the stellar Bordeaux and Sauvignon Blanc, there were no lost tempers. |
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| The stars are replaced by a homogenous sea of glowing hot gas with embedded jewels of stellar accretion disks, neutron stars and super nova remnants. |
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| At the heart of the show, Jacobi is stellar as Claudius, who learns to play up his physical failings to mask his own intelligence. |
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| The show premiered two weeks ago to less than stellar ratings. |
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| A truism these days among Internet angels and venture capitalists holds that a stellar management team is worth more than a supercool business plan. |
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| You'll hear a marimba and dulcimer every so often in this crescendoing collection of stellar four-part harmonies. |
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| As night fell and the frog and cricket symphony geared up for a stellar performance, we mapped out a plausible plan. |
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| Scientists say the data will not only reveal the composition of the sun, but illuminate how our planet could have formed from clouds of stellar dust. |
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| He soon garnered a reputation as a stellar stand-up comic, making regular appearances on def Comedy Jam. |
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| The back-to-back sets to follow are both, in a word, stellar. |
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| If the interior of the Sun were better mixed then it might have a longer lifetime, but things are as they are, and stellar interiors are heavily stratified. |
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| Stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes will remain. |
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| They are among the least expensive for all their stellar qualities. |
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| As is the fey way, her opening monologue included some stellar self-deprecating jokes. |
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| Apsidal motion is one of the classical diagnostics of stellar structure. |
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| It was a scintillating partnership that wowed the crowd and their teammates, who huddled together on the dressing room balcony to witness a stellar batting exhibition. |
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| Despite this stellar past, Howard's law school has struggled in recent years with sagging enrollment and lackluster bar exam passage rates of its students. |
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| The Scott brothers are currently headlining three shows, all of them with stellar ratings. |
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| Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day. |
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| Or take the Human Genome Project as another stellar example of what medical research can accomplish. |
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| Glenview have lost a list of stellar names to their Super League rivals Abbey United, while many of those who waited at the club decided to wait in Sligo on Sunday as well. |
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| But it might, when we look back at the stellar performances young Hollywood produced this year, end up being ridiculous. |
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| Oh does she deserve this nomination, and maybe even this award with her stellar aftermath-of-Will grief work. |
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| Take time to appreciate your stellar grades, that awesome masterpiece you painted for art class and the way you've been able to reach out to a troubled pal. |
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| Oddly, the quality of the recording is stellar in contrast to the rest of the album's material, and every vocal tic and nuance is instantly palpable. |
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| Among those who are stepping down from presidencies or chancellor posts to pursue retirement or other opportunities is a stellar group of African Americans. |
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| Stellar photography aside, he's really the only reason I keep resubscribing to the mag. |
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| He was also the editor or co-editor of substantial publications on the atmospheres of the Earth and the planets, the Solar System, and stars and stellar systems. |
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| This is bare-bones, disintegrating-nitrate-to-VHS-to-DVD imaging that does a disservice to the legacy of one of entertainment's truly stellar showmen. |
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| The Miles Davis rhythm section were busy men and Pepper was blessed to have such stellar players available for the one day, because the final product is excellent. |
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| Fortunately, she looked stellar in her Dionne Warwick-like coif. |
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| The dust needed help coming together fast, in kilometer-wide protoplanets, in the first few million years after a star was born, or the stellar wind would blow it all away. |
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| An aging star sheds its outer layers of gas through stellar winds. |
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| In 2011, after weathering criticism from the media, fans, and even his teammates, Beckham finally enjoyed a stellar season. |
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| Adraee's stellar performance may overshadow his actual message so I have taken the time to break it down for you. |
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| Hooke's activities in astronomy extended beyond the study of stellar distance. |
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| Many of the more elaborate forms are unique to England, with stellar vaulting also occurring in Spain and Germany. |
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| It is much cooler and redder than any star lying along the main sequence of stellar evolution, but more luminous than low-mass red stars. |
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| This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar mass, making it essentially impossible to observe. |
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| Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. |
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| The gravitational collapse of heavy stars is assumed to be responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes. |
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| The evidence for stellar black holes strongly relies on the existence of an upper limit for the mass of a neutron star. |
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| These hypothetical models could potentially explain a number of observations of stellar black hole candidates. |
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| These stellar students will be the first ones to graduate at a campus abroad. |
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| Stellar matter will then fall either directly onto the surface of the neutron star, or first form an accretion disk before falling onto the surface. |
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| Their atmospheres will begin to boil off, and the planets themselves will be stretched into egg shapes by stellar tides. |
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| During the 1990s, the measurement of the stellar wobble of nearby stars was used to detect large extrasolar planets orbiting those stars. |
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| The study of stars and stellar evolution is fundamental to our understanding of the Universe. |
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| The remnant of a supernova is a dense neutron star, or, if the stellar mass was at least three times that of the Sun, a black hole. |
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| This large flow is likely gas swept up by the stellar wind to form the comet-like tail trailing the planet. |
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| The expanding Universe then underwent a Dark Age due to the lack of stellar energy sources. |
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| These before-and-after images can help astronomers understand how stellar winds, gas and their environment interact to build a new massive star. |
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| Flamsteed supported the feasibility of the method but lamented the lack of detailed knowledge of the stellar positions and the moon's movement. |
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| James Moye will headline the benefit with a stellar cast of Broadways actors, all in support of NIBD Kids. |
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| Of course the fact that it's got two stellar actors at its helm won't do it any disfavours. |
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| Observations on phyllotaxis, stellar morphology, the shoot apex, and bulbils of Lycopodium lucidulum Michaux. |
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| The purest literary talent appears at one time great, at another time small, but character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness. |
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| The only gateway we have to that stellar interior is the study of stellar oscillations, or asteroseismology. |
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| In addition, Carlton has unsurpassed capital markets expertise, a stellar track record and an excellent reputation. |
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| Exoplanets are the distant offspring of a star beyond our sun, a brown dwarf, or a stellar corpse. |
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| Both produce powerful gaseous outflows called stellar winds, which enshroud the stars and stymy efforts to directly measure their properties. |
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| Brown dwarfs, however, unlike their true stellar kin, never manage to gain sufficient mass for nuclear fusion to commence and light their fires. |
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| In compiling its annual Best of Eugene edition, the Weekly's staff chose Miss Meer's as the city's most stellar shoe store. |
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| Our sample includes slow and fast rotators, with and without a magnetic field, with and without a stellar wind. |
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| The YoY decline was attributed to the poor performance of Design print products, while business titles still showed a stellar performance. |
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| Chapter 3 examines the properties of the stellar wind within their liquid star model. |
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| This is a fine slice of Saturday night escapism with a stellar aturday night escapism with a stellar cast. |
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| Khan, left in the lurch, called in Tabares after his stellar work with his friend David Haye, the former WBA heavyweight champion. |
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| Heavy element transmutation was observed bull-dozed by the bow shock that matched stellar and supernova nucleosynthesis. |
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| Dundee, who died on February 1 aged 90, was Ali's corner man during his stellar ring career. |
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| Ultraviolet starlight would normally be blocked by the material flowing from the star as its outer layers billow out in a stellar wind. |
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| It is a classic reflection nebula with powerful stellar winds that produce the comet-like nebula we see today. |
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| Wide binary stars are separated by as much as one light-year in their orbits, farther apart than some stellar nurseries are wide. |
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| But that misstep is a minor blip in an otherwise stellar premiere. |
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| The dark, cool region is dotted with stellar factories, like pearls on a cosmic string. |
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| They are evolved, highly luminous, massive stars which are losing mass rapidly by means of very strong stellar winds. |
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| Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that powerful stellar winds are sweeping the atmospheric material behind the scorched planet. |
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| An average star of spectral class G, it has no companion, unlike the majority of the Milky Way's stellar inhabitants. |
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| I picked these based on the experience of other astronomers and knowledge of the variability with stellar spectral type. |
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| Since its launch in 1990 the Hubble space telescope has captured beautiful images of the universe, such as the birth of stars in stellar nurseries. |
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| The researchers found that even an Earth-like magnetic field could not necessarily protect a habitable-zone world from the star's continuous stellar wind bombardment. |
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| The Bag Man is a classic example of how to waste a stellar cast. |
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| These stars have extremely powerful stellar winds, blowing off huge amounts of material at speeds of 2000 kilometres per second, BBC Science said. |
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| The image reveals how the stellar winds are crashing up against the surrounding interstellar medium, creating a bow-shock as the star hurls through space. |
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| This scenario fits with the notion that a fierce stellar wind from the blue supergiant had scoured out the region just before the star finally exploded. |
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| The most probable hypothesis that has yet been proposed to account for the examples before us of stellar changeableness is that of axical rotation. |
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| These stellar explosions send fundamental, uncharged particles called neutrinos streaming our way and generate ripples called gravitational waves in the fabric of space-time. |
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| Today, Facelifts are routine and while there are numerous surgical Facelift techniques employed, not all are created equal nor produce stellar results. |
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| The STELLAR program builds the capacity of teaching professionals through training and transferal of knowledge and skills. |
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| Elsewhere, Safa put the gloss on their stellar campaign so far with an emphatic 8-0 win over Tajikistani side Ravshan in their final match of Group A Wednesday. |
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| The stellar ejecta of these extreme carbon stars throws carbon into the interstellar medium where it can feed the creation of carbon-rich molecular clouds. |
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| England's stellar pedallers have become so used to collecting medals these past few years, but their dominance has been well and truly broken in Glasgow. |
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| Stellar by Angie Lewin is a 2 colour design, based on an original linocut print. |
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| Jacqueline Stellar from Fairfax, Virginia, expressed the same sentiment. |
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| The red giant star observed by the astronomers, J0247-25, had a recent stellar collision and the team discovered the star was a new type of pulsating stars. |
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| It contradicted not only empirical observation, due to the absence of an observable stellar parallax, but more significantly at the time, the authority of Aristotle. |
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| The Wubei Zhi includes four stellar diagrams after the Mao Kun map. |
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| The measurement of stellar parallax of nearby stars provides a fundamental baseline in the cosmic distance ladder that is used to measure the scale of the Universe. |
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| The stellar wind and supernova explosions from these stars eventually cause the cloud to disperse, often leaving behind one or more young open clusters of stars. |
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| It was designed to observe regions of space obscured by stellar dust. |
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| You can't create a stellar software product unless you know what it is supposed to do. You must work with the stakeholders to create the product scope. |
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| Numerous surprises are in store for Kathryn Dance in bestseller Deaver's stellar fourth novel featuring the California Bureau of investigation kinesics expert. |
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| Karl Henize, a Northwestern astronomer, reported finding a cluster of 33 stars in a stellar nursery. The stars recently condensed from surrounding clouds of dust. |
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| Looking wonderful in Ingeborg Bernerth's handsome costumes, she was every inch the grand tragedienne, stellar of presence and pliantly poetic of plastique. |
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| Another way Wolf-Rayet stars are said to form is when a massive star ejects its own hydrogen envelope in a strong stellar wind streaming with charged particles. |
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| The Stellar Group has also completed construction on a new 75,000 square foot blast cell and freezer addition for ConAgra Frozen Foods. |
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| Stellar Wind, the favoured west-coast visitor, did pretty well to claim fourth after dropping off the rear in the early stages, when she seemed to resent the kickback. |
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| Stellar cast aside, critics have applauded Ashford for preserving Tennessee's vision, and keeping intact all the melodramatics originally intended by its writer. |
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