T Tauri star

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of young visible stars having optical variability; they are often surrounded by a protoplanetary disc.

Word forms

T Tauri star T Tauri stars

Etymology

Named after the prototype star of its class, T Tauri.

Related words

T Tauri
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.