FUN FACTS ABOUT STAR SYSTEMS

Many stars you look at in the night sky seem like a single glimmer of light, however that is not the case.

• Most stars you see in the night sky are actually two star systems, or binary star systems.
• They are so far away however that they just appear as one speck of light.

Stars go through many phases of life, much like other organic beings

• When a star is dying, it turns into a “white dwarf”, when the star uses up all of the chemicals required for its nuclear fusion reaction, it will fuse a large clump, which will emit white light until it finally darkens for good.

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• There are some stars that are 100 times more massive than our Sun
• 8. There are some stars that are 100 times more massive than our Sun. These stars also can output about a million times more energy than our sun, while still maintaining the same radius.

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• Throughout the night, many things glimmer brightly in the sky.
• The stars do move across the sky over the sky over the course of a night as the earth rotates, but it is nearly impossible to actually notice this motion except near the horizon