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carbon star
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carbon star [′kär·bən ‚stär]
(astronomy)
Any of a class of stars with an apparently high abundance ratio of carbon to hydrogen; a majority of these are low-temperature red giants of the C class.


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Of all the stars recorded by 2MASS, the astronomers chose to analyze carbon stars first because of three remarkable properties.
Otherwise, the orbits of the carbon stars would spread out rather than remain in a circle, Ibata says.
 
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