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protobulge en · NOUN

Etymology

From proto- + bulge.

Meanings

1. A group of stars that accumulate into a galactic bulge.
   • While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies. 1984, Joshua Edward Barnes, On the Origin of Galactic Bulges, the Evolution of Groups, and the Distribution of Abell Clusters:

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