... stars shine under their own power, planets simply reflect the light of their parent ... is on one side of its star, its gravity pulls the star ever so slightly to that side ...
... Editor's note: Since other stars are so far away, much of the progress we are making in understanding stars in general comes from studying our own "hometown'' star, the Sun. ...
... star group or picture in that region, so the constellation Orion is the sector of ... star chart that does not have the standard constellations marked on it and ask them ... Star Wheels (Activity kit developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science, with 6 ...
... The reddish M-class dwarf star GJ 667C appears left of center, while the other stars in the system, a pair of orange K-class dwarfs, are also visible. ...
... professional astronomers reported that the bright star Epsilon Aurigae had begun to ... It is believed that the dimming of the star s light is caused by an eclipsing object ... Even during the eclipse, the star is so bright that sensitive equipment in ...
... Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death . Objectives . Constructing and Using the Pinhole Protractor . ... Astronomers use a similar process to determine distances of stars and galaxies. ...
... stars represents to them personally; how the group of stars might represent a bear ... see all the stars in this constellation (effect of distance on visibility of stars ...
... The other chemical elements were formed later -- some in nuclear reactions in the cores of stars, others when the most massive stars ended their lives in gargantuan explosions that astronomers call a supernova. ...
... There stars of a million different colors are so densely packed together and so ... a moment to adjust to the vast scatterings of stars dazzling as diamonds on a sea of ...
... out beyond the star figures, were set in 1930, so that every star, nebula, or galaxy ... to one star by the description "the reddish one on the southern eye," a star we now ...