Below you will find example sentences with "main sequence". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Main Sequence in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: sequence
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "main sequence" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as on the main sequence, a main sequence star s, stars, star and sun stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with main camera, main entrance, main street and dna sequence, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with main sequence
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Strong X-ray emission from Herbig Ae/Be stars main Herbig Ae/Be stars are pre-main sequence stars. (19 words)
A mid-sized yellow dwarf star, like the Sun, will remain on the main sequence for about 10 billion years. (20 words)
Astronomers divide the main sequence into upper and lower parts, based on which of the two is the dominant fusion process. (21 words)
A main sequence star 's magnetic field and the stellar wind serve to slow its rotation by a significant amount as it evolves on the main sequence. citation Degenerate stars have contracted into a compact mass, resulting in a rapid rate of rotation. (43 words)
The most massive stars have begun to evolve away from the main sequence and are becoming red giants ; the position of the turn-off from the main sequence can be used to estimate the age of the cluster. (38 words)
The Sun has been a main-sequence star for about 4.5 billion years and it will become a red giant in 6.5 billion years, citation for a total main sequence lifetime of roughly 10 10 years. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
A main sequence star 's magnetic field and the stellar wind serve to slow its rotation by a significant amount as it evolves on the main sequence. citation Degenerate stars have contracted into a compact mass, resulting in a rapid rate of rotation.
Certain stars like Deneb and Betelgeuse are found above and to the right of the main sequence, more luminous or cooler than their equivalents on the main sequence.
The common use of dwarf to mean main sequence is confusing in another way, because there are dwarf stars which are not main-sequence stars.
The most massive stars have begun to evolve away from the main sequence and are becoming red giants ; the position of the turn-off from the main sequence can be used to estimate the age of the cluster.
The Sun has been a main-sequence star for about 4.5 billion years and it will become a red giant in 6.5 billion years, citation for a total main sequence lifetime of roughly 10 10 years.
Act 1 main The overture begins with a thundering D minor cadence, followed by a short misterioso main sequence which leads into a light-hearted D major allegro.
Main sequence main Stars spend about 90% of their existence fusing hydrogen into helium in high-temperature and high-pressure reactions near the core.
Strong X-ray emission from Herbig Ae/Be stars main Herbig Ae/Be stars are pre-main sequence stars.
Subgiant phase main When a star exhausts the hydrogen in its core, it leaves the main sequence and begins to fuse hydrogen in a shell outside the core.
These are main sequence stars that are in the middle of their lives, not red giant stars like Betelgeuse, which are in the final stages of their lives.
About 360 times as luminous and 3.75 times as massive as the Sun, it is expanding and cooling as it ages, having spent much of its life as a main sequence star of spectrum B6V.
After the hydrogen fuel at the core has been consumed, the star evolves away from the main sequence on the HR diagram.
A mid-sized yellow dwarf star, like the Sun, will remain on the main sequence for about 10 billion years.
As a result, red dwarfs have estimated lifespans far longer than the present age of the universe, and stars less than 0.8 M have not had time to leave the main sequence.
A star remains near its initial position on the main sequence until a significant amount of hydrogen in the core has been consumed, then begins to evolve into a more luminous star.
Astronomers divide the main sequence into upper and lower parts, based on which of the two is the dominant fusion process.
Because of its vastly increased surface area, the surface of the Sun will be considerably cooler (2,600 K at its coolest) than it is on the main sequence.
Calculations of its mass indicate it was most likely a white A-type main sequence star for most of its existence, around twice the mass of our Sun.
Delta is a spectroscopic binary system composed of two yellow main sequence stars of similar dimensions to the Sun that lies 35 light-years from Earth.
Depending on the mass of the helium core, this continues for several million to one or two billion years, with the star expanding and cooling at a similar or slightly lower luminosity to its main sequence state.