Life Cycle Of A Star           

                    The development of a star has been the subject of many scientists. The birth of many stars is connected with the presence of dust  grains. After a cloud  collapses, gas  (chunks) contracts into a star. Stars are  huge  balls of gas and dust in space. Stars explode because they get older and go out of existence. Stars try  to fuse iron, which needs energy at last stage. Stars run out of fuel, and die. The Black Dwarf is the remaining fuel, heat, and light of a star.  

                                        Characteristics Of A Star

                 Can you believe it you could see 2,000 to 3,000 stars with a naked eye! The surface of a star is 36,000 to 55,000 degrees fahrenheit.2 stars orbiting each other looks like one star but are not. Stars are named or numbered by star atlases and catalogs (star catalogs). Stars are really reddish in the sky. Also the person who first finds the star, the star will be named by the person's last name. It really depends if the person wants to name the star by their last name. A White Dwarf is a small but a very hot star. A Binary Star is a star that revolve around a common center of gravity. The interior is the inside of a star, planet, or moon. A nebula is a cloud of interstellar matter.

 

                      Other Fun Information 

        Did you know the largest stars are called Super giants?

2,000 stars are in the sky at daytime but blocked by the sun. The nearest star to our solar system is the triple star, Proxima Centauri. The first double star was seen in 1889.More than half the stars that look like one are really two. Stars are as bright as the sun but because the sun is closer to the earth than all the stars the sun is brighter. A light star or a dim star is called a Nova when it explodes lightly. A star that explodes and becomes really bright is called a Super Nova. An Alpha Centauri is a star system consisting of 3 stars but looks like only one.

                     

                

Nebula's Supernova.                  A supernova. 

                                

                               

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