O STAR


Meaning of O STAR in English

/oh" stahr'/

a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.

Cf. spectral type .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .