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• Electromagnetic spectrumRelated: It shows that every spectral band carries momentum as well as energy.

• CometRelated: It helps push dust grains outward, shaping the comet’s dust tail.

• H II regionRelated: Starlight can push and reshape the gas around young massive stars.

• Laser coolingRelated: Absorbed laser photons exert the directed force that slows moving atoms.

• Gravitational collapseRelated: Radiation can provide support against gravity in hot, luminous stellar interiors.

• Stellar feedbackRelated: Absorbed and scattered starlight can push dusty gas away from luminous stars.

• Arthur EddingtonRelated: Eddington showed that radiation pressure can help support massive stars against gravity.

• Radiant fluxRelated: The flux incident on a surface helps determine the momentum and pressure radiation delivers.

• Emission nebulaRelated: Starlight can push dust and gas, helping reshape the nebula around its ionizing sources.

• Orbital perturbationRelated: Solar photons perturb spacecraft and small bodies, especially when area-to-mass ratio is high.

• Optical tweezersRelated: It pushes particles along the beam and helps determine whether a stable trap forms.

• Magneto-optical trapRelated: Repeated photon absorption and spontaneous emission transfer momentum that slows and pushes atoms.

• NebulaRelated: Starlight pushes dust and gas, helping clear material around young stars.

• Poynting–Robertson effectRelated: It supplies the photon momentum whose direction is aberrated by the dust’s orbital motion.

• William CrookesRelated: Crookes investigated whether light’s pressure could explain the motion of his radiometer vanes.

• Carina NebulaRelated: Starlight helps push dust and gas away from the nebula's most luminous stars.

• Classical electromagnetismRelated: Classical fields transfer momentum as well as energy to objects.

• Cosmic dustRelated: Starlight can push small grains outward, competing with gravity in stellar environments.

• Debris diskRelated: Around luminous stars it can expel grains, setting the disk’s smallest bound particle size.

• Poynting vectorRelated: Its momentum transfer is related to the same directed flow of radiation energy.

• Circumstellar mediumRelated: It can push dust grains outward from luminous stars.

• Eagle NebulaRelated: Starlight contributes to the forces that push and compress nearby gas.

• Eddington luminosityRelated: Its outward force is the term that balances gravity at the Eddington limit.

• Horsehead NebulaRelated: Starlight helps sculpt and compress the cloud's exposed surface.

• Pair-instability supernovaRelated: Radiation pressure supports the hot core until pair production reduces its effectiveness.

• Photon momentumRelated: Photon momentum produces a measurable force when light is absorbed or reflected.

• Bok globuleRelated: Radiation from nearby stars can erode or compress a globule's exposed surface.

• Arthur AshkinRelated: Ashkin used light’s momentum transfer to explain how laser beams could push and trap particles.

• Claude Cohen-TannoudjiRelated: Repeated photon absorption produces the forces used to slow and confine atoms.

• Photon gasRelated: Photon momentum produces pressure even when the gas has no material particles.

• Pillars of CreationRelated: Radiation from nearby stars contributes to the forces acting on the surrounding gas and dust.

• FomalhautRelated: Fomalhaut’s luminous star can push small dust grains out of the system.

• Lagoon NebulaRelated: Starlight pushes on gas and dust, helping sculpt the nebula’s bright and dark structures.

• Rosette NebulaRelated: Starlight contributes to the shaping and dispersal of gas around NGC 2244.

• Herbig Ae/Be starRelated: Strong stellar radiation may oppose the inflow needed to build massive Herbig Be stars.

• Massless particleRelated: Massless photons exert force because they carry momentum despite having zero invariant mass.

• HypergiantRelated: In hypergiants, radiation pressure can drive powerful stellar winds.

• Photon epochRelated: High radiation pressure influenced early-universe dynamics while photons dominated.

• Poynting's theoremRelated: Energy flux in the theorem is related to radiation’s ability to deliver momentum and pressure.

• Radiation (physics)Related: Radiation transfers momentum as well as energy.

• Acoustic tweezersRelated: Acoustic radiation force is the particle-scale expression of wave momentum transfer.

• History of electromagnetic theoryRelated: Field theory implied that light carries momentum as well as energy.