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coreshine

noun

Etymology

From core + shine.

  1. inherited from *skainijaną✻
  2. inherited from scǣnan — “to render brilliant, make shine”
  3. inherited from schenen
  4. derived from scīn — “brightness, shine”
  5. derived from schinen
  6. compounded as coreshine — “core + shine”

Definitions

  1. infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of…

    infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds

    • In the case of Rho Oph 9, we were unable to reliably disentangle the coreshine emission from background variations and the strong local PAH emission.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coreshine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA