... This is no illusion. Stars do tend to be near other stars. ... We call these patterns of stars ``constellations'', meaning ``groups of stars''. ...
... it says: But did you know that the sun is actually just a star, similar to all of the other stars that light up our night sky ... That only happens to much more massive stars ; stars that are 8 or more times the mass of the Sun. ...
... star that would later be known as Sanduleak -69 202 (named after the man who ... The star was a normal enough star, much like the Sun, but with perhaps 20 or so ... star like the Sun can go for billions of years merrily fusing hydrogen into helium ...
... is actually a binary system, usually a normal star like the Sun and a small dense ... closely, and the white dwarf can actually draw hydrogen gas off the normal star ... We see the star brighten quickly, and fade over time. ...
... The nearest star to the Sun is over 40,000,000,000,000 kilometers away. ... So astronomers need a really big unit to measure distances to stars. ... It takes about 4.3 years to get to the nearest known star besides the Sun. ...
... stars in the sky visible to the unaided eye, ranging in brightness from the star ... the brightnesses of stars into a magnitude scale: the brightest star was given a ...
... The idea of stars being unchanging and unmoving is so ingrained in us that we give a different name to the stars that move: we call them ``planets'', after the Greek word for ``wanderer''. ...
... As it happens, bright stars (that is, stars that give off the most amount of energy) actually last the shortest amount of time. ... As the fuel gets used up in a star like the Sun, the outer layers of the star get blown off. ...