gravity darkening (English, noun)
expansion: gravity darkening (uncountable)
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topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon of a star rotating so rapidly that it is oblate, with a larger radius and thus lower surface gravity at the equator (which is thus cooler and darker: gravity-darkened), and higher surface gravity at the poles (which are hotter and brighter: gravity brightened).
tags: uncountable
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