The Stars
Below are our 11 articles in the 'the stars' category:
Look up into the sky during the day and you will see the glowing disk that is our Sun, the closest star to Earth. Look up into that same sky at night and you will see countless twinkling points of ...
While it looks at times like you could reach up into the sky and pluck down the Sun, that giant flaming ball of gas that is our neighborhood star is actually 150 million kilometers away—and that is ...
In 1910 a the beginnings of the understanding of stellar evolution was attained when a Danish chemist and an American astronomer collaborated in the creation of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This ...
A small plaque, made of gold, upon which is attached a message from humanity to any intelligent being that may encounter. It is the pioneer plaque, one of two sent out by NASA as a first hopeful ...
Through advancing science mankind has become able to look beyond the reaches of its own galaxy and, following spectral signatures, observe the birth of stars. Of course, considering that information ...
When measuring a lifespan in millions, billions and even hundreds of billions of years, it may not seem likely, but stars do die. Eventually they stop pumping out energy and end their existence in a ...
The galaxy that is home to the Earth itself is known as the Milky Way, an immense banded spiral in space that, when observed from afar, appears to be a spinning blade made from misty tendrils.
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Our closest star, the Sun, provides just the right amount of heat and light energy to provide life on our planet, and it is considred an “average” star- but what about the billions of other stars out ...
The stargazer stepped out his front door and into the street, tilting his head up in the night air to get a better view of the winter sky. He quickly picked out the three stars that make up Orion’s ...
In the popular movie and comic book “The Fantastic Four” the heroes have incredible powers granted them by exposure to cosmic rays. As their leader, a man with unrivaled intelligence and scientific ...
A star, at its most basic, is a burning ball of gas. A very, very large, hot, massive burning ball of gas. Our closest example is, of course, the Sun, which teaches us much of what we know of the ...
