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    A proplyd, short for ionized protoplanetary disk, is an externally illuminated photoevaporating protoplanetary disk around a young star. Nearly 180 proplyds...
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    suggesting it is a proplyd. In 2016 a group of astronomers discovered six proplyds with the Hubble Space Telescope and one proplyd with the Spitzer Space...
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    Externally illuminated photo-evaporating protoplanetary disks are called proplyds. Protostars form from molecular clouds consisting primarily of molecular...
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  • This is a list of stars with proplyds (ionized protoplanetary discs) and includes whether they have gaps or planets. (list is very incomplete) When planets...
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  • photoevaporated protoplanetary disks is the Orion Nebula. They were called bright proplyds and since then the term was used for other regions to describe photoevaporation...
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    Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion disk Protoplanetary disk Proplyd Asteroseismology Helioseismology Circumstellar dust Cosmic dust Circumstellar...
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    many wavelengths. Infrared view of (part of) De Mairan's Nebula (M43) A proplyd being ionizd by HD 37061 (image with JWST). List of Messier objects Sulentic...
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    perpendicular to the pulsar's true motion. Illustration of the dynamics of a proplyd, including a jet Centaurus A in x-rays showing the relativistic jet The...
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    Plerion H II region Reflection Dark nebulae Molecular cloud Bok globule Proplyd H I region Cosmic scale CMB Cosmic string (hypothet.) Dark matter MACHO...
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    Stellar wind Bubble Bipolar outflow Accretion disk Protoplanetary disk Proplyd Asteroseismology Helioseismology Circumstellar dust Cosmic dust Circumstellar...
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