filamentary
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These simulations predicted what such filamentary structures should look like under current cosmological models.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
“Subsequently the gas cools and fragments into later generations of stars in less filamentary structures. This behavior is not shared in star forming environments that are more enriched in heavy elements.”
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
That’s one of the plans that we have to test this idea of the stretching and elongation and alignment of these filamentary structures.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
Clusters and superclusters are found in filamentary structures that are huge but fill only a small fraction of space.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Apex of one of the filamentary appendages of Conchoderma aurita, greatly magnified, exhibiting the included branching testes.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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