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A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. [1] The nearest star to Earth is the Sun.Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from …

Jun 11, 2025 · star, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars composing …

May 2, 2025 · Astronomers call stars that are stably undergoing nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium main sequence star s.This is the longest phase of a star’s life. The star’s luminosity, …

Sep 26, 2022 · An intermediate-mass star begins with a cloud that takes about 100,000 years to collapse into a protostar with a surface temperature of about 6,750 degrees F (3,725 degrees C).

Apr 10, 2025 · I love simple questions that wind up having complicated—or at least not straightforward—answers. Astronomers twist themselves into knots, for example, trying to …

Jul 15, 2014 · We're all pretty familiar with stars. We see them on most clear nights as tiny, twinkling pinpricks of light in the sky. Stars are the topic of countless poems, stories, and …

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