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Uncommon card · Science
Herbig–Haro object, an Uncommon card
Herbig–Haro objects are bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 149
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 149 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Herbig–Haro object quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Herbig–Haro object card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Most of them lie within about one parsec of the ______, although some have been observed several parsecs away.
Answer
source. Most of them lie within about one parsec of the source, although some have been observed several parsecs away. From the Herbig–Haro object article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tom Chilton. Tom Chilton 84 · Charles M. Lieber 77 · Herbig–Haro object 72 · Peter Henlein 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Charles M. Lieber. Charles M. Lieber 41,000 · Neural crest 30,000 · Herbig–Haro object 24,000 · Peter Henlein 17,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are formed when narrow jets of partially ionised gas ejected by stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust at several hundred kilometers per second.
- Herbig–Haro objects are commonly found in star-forming regions, and several are often seen around a single star, aligned with its rotational axis.
- Most of them lie within about one parsec of the source, although some have been observed several parsecs away.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Herbig–Haro object article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Herbig–Haro object
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Herbig–Haro object (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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