Stellar collision

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A stellar collision is the coming together of two stars caused by stellar dynamics within a star cluster, or by the orbital decay of a binary star due to stellar mass loss or gravitational radiation, or by other mechanisms not yet well understood.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Stellar collision”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.