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Stars are balls of luminous plasma, held together by gravity. They can be seen twinkling overhead from our planet each night. They are enjoyable to look at, but also have been used as navigation tools for centuries.
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Stars leave the red giant branch when the temperature of the core reaches about 100 millionoK and helium fusion in the core...
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The Sun does not have the mass to go nova or supernova, or become a black hole. Instead, in about 5 billion years, it will become...
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A sunspot.
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As one of perhaps 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, the sun has no influence whatsoever on the galaxy, and would make...
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there are two separate ways that astronomers measure the brightness of a start, there is actuall and aparent brightness. In...
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from the orbits of stars and gas clouds orbiting the galactic center at greater distances than the Sun
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The color of a star is determined by how hot it is, with blue being the hottest.
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The Sun likes the earth's atmosphere, but the earth's atmosphere thinks the sun is really annoying. It is a very complex...
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Yes.
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yes. earth, jupiter, mars, etc. is the galaxy of the sun.
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No not for all but for some it is.
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The sun's first rays of a new year strike Mt. Hakepa on Pitt Island of New Zealand's Chatham Islands, 850km from New Zealand's...
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white Each star type has it's own emission spectrum. There are stars that are very hot and look blueish to the eye (but have a...
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Stars are primarily hydrogen and helium.
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The biggest star in OUR Solar System is the Sun... Yes, the big hot orange, yellow and red thing that gives our Earth light.
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scientifically no for the sun is so hot u would melt and noone so far proved can survive getting there
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Total time about 10 billion years = 3.1556926 × 1017 seconds
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Difference between what? See related question
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All blue or white stars are more massive than our Sun
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The largest object in the solar system is the Sun.
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They are fusing light elements such as Hydrogen and Helium into heavier elements such as Lithium and Carbon.
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Because if there was more than one, you wouldn't be asking this question. The planets would not have formed the way they have and...
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Yes, our sun is around 4.57 billion years old and is currently around halfway through its main sequence life.
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A binary star system (2)
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All stars are different but a blue giant will only "live" for about a couple of million years. Our Sun will "live" for about 10...
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Least to greatest what?: Size Mercury Mars Venus Earth Density Mars Venus Mercury Earth
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Because Sirius is a much brighter star, regardless of the distance. It is so much brighter than Alpha Centauri that it appears...
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Morning Star and Evening Star are two names for Venus.
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Rigel and Betelgeuse don't orbit each other. They are hundreds of light-years away from each other.
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it would be dark--YES it would be dark, but the infra red spectrum would also be blocked and our planet would FREEZE over! The...
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yes the red giant star is the expansion of star In the late phase of stellar evolution. During this stellar phase the surface of...
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Its called as nuclear fusion. The nucleus of hydrogen atoms fuse together and form helium nucleus. There is some difference of...
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Red giant stars range from about 2,700 kelvins to 4,500 kelvins on average which is equivalent 4,500 to 7,640 degrees Fahrenheit
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Several things to consider: -- Because of its ENORMOUS size. We believe that Betelgeuse is about as large as the orbits of the...
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