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starburst /ˈstɑːbəːst /noun1A pattern of lines or rays radiating from a central object or source of light: [as modifier]: a starburst pattern...- The viewer was greeted by a starburst of white lines radiating from the center of a yellow, rectangular, floor-to-ceiling field.
- Infected kernels may be pink or show a white starburst pattern radiating from the top of the kernel.
- You will begin to see patterns and colours and starbursts.
1.1A camera lens attachment that produces a pattern of rays around the image of a source of light: [as modifier]: a starburst filter...- Or opt for a rhinestone detail such as a starburst on the lower half of the lens.
- He is also being asked about the starburst in one of the first images he captured.
2A period of intense activity in a galaxy involving the formation of stars: [as modifier]: a starburst galaxy...- Here the star formation rate may be higher, so these galaxies are called starbursts.
- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found new populations of suspected mid-mass black holes in several starburst galaxies, where stars form and explode at an unusually high rate.
- On a grander scale, the new nebula observations could hold clues to star formation in distant galaxies, including so-called starburst galaxies, in which stars are forming like gangbusters.
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