单词 | star stuff |
释义 | > as lemmasstar stuff c. Designating material of which stars are formed or consist, or which was once part of a star; frequently in star stuff.In early use chiefly with reference to the nebular hypothesis of the formation of star systems (in quot. 1885 figurative). ΚΠ 1857 T. D. Simonton tr. J. H. Kurtz Bible & Astron. v. 395 W. Herschel was..led back to a view..that the unresolved part of the nebula consisted not so much of thickly-crowded stars, as of star-material [Ger. Sternmaterie], cosmical matter. 1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean (1910) I. v. 61 Apuleius had gathered into it the floating star-matter of many a delightful story. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Feb. 356 Look what billions and billions of stars there is. How does it come that there was just exactly enough star-stuff? 1905 A. M. Clerke Mod. Cosmogonies 54 If space contained only full-grown stars and no stars in the making—no star-spawn, no star-protoplasm. 1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) vii. 51 There is a place with four suns in the sky..; two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them. 1993 Discover Feb. 12/1 As collapsing star matter continues to slam into this incomprehensible nugget, it generates a shock wave that rebounds back through the star's outer layers. 2002 Science 22 Nov. 1544/2 We are all made of starstuff. The big bang created hydrogen..and other light atoms. But everything else..was made by stars. < as lemmas |
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