North Carolina, it turns out, makes â [a]ssault[ing] a female â a class A1 misdemeanor, if the attacker is âa male person at least 18 years of ageâ; female-on-male, male-on-male, and female-on-female assaults are generally class 2 misdemeanors.
(nÄbâ²yÉ-lÉr). An explanation of the origin of the solar system according to which a rotating nebula cooled and contracted, flattening into a disk shape with a central bulge. The matter in the disk condensed into the planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets, while the great mass at the center became the sun.
Simply stated, star formation begins when part of the interstellar mediumâone of the cold, dark clouds discussed in Chapter 18âstarts to collapse under its own weight. (Sec. 18.3) The cloud fragment heats up as it shrinks, and eventually its center becomes hot enough for nuclear burning to begin.