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jet cocoon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables
jet -co-coon
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cloud of gas that obscures the poles of a star undergoing hypernova (HN), which gets heated by the polar jet escaping the hypernova progenitor star (hnp), and may absorb the energy of a weak gamma-ray burst (GRB), leaving an observable HN lacking the associated GRB, or be penetrated by a stronger GRB, giving a HN with an associated GRB.

Inflected Forms

jet cocoons (plural)

Questions

What does jet cocoon mean?
A cloud of gas that obscures the poles of a star undergoing hypernova (HN), which gets heated by the polar jet escaping the hypernova progenitor star (hnp), and may absorb the energy of a weak gamma-ray burst (GRB), leaving an observable HN lacking the associated GRB, or be penetrated by a stronger GRB, giving a HN with an associated GRB.

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