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Star - Wikipedia
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 Earth make them appear as fixed points of light.

Star | Definition, Light, Names, & Facts | Britannica
A star is 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 in the observable universe, only a very small percentage are visible to the naked eye.

Stars - NASA Science
A star’s gas provides its fuel, and its mass determines how rapidly it runs through its supply, with lower-mass stars burning longer, dimmer, and cooler than very massive stars.

Stars - WorldAtlas
As a star approaches the end of its lifespan, it no longer has hydrogen to transform into helium in its core. Unable to complete the nuclear fusion process, the star begins to succumb to gravity, slowly collapsing.

What Is a Star and How Does It Work? - ThoughtCo
How does a star work? How do they form, live, and eventually die? Learn more about these distant objects and their major importance in the universe.

What is a Star? - Universe Guide
The simplest way to describe a star is that it is a great ball of fire, but it is more complicated than that. A star is a giant ball of hydrogen turning into helium through nuclear fusion.

What is a star? - Cool Cosmos
A star is a huge sphere of very hot, glowing gas. Stars produce their own light and energy by a process called nuclear fusion. Fusion happens when lighter elements are forced to become heavier elements. When this happens, a tremendous amount of energy is created causing the star to heat up and shine. Stars come in a variety of sizes and colors.

What Is a Star? | Scientific American
In a very broad sense, a star is simply one of those twinkling points of light you can see in the night sky. But that’s not terribly satisfying in either lexicological or physical terms.

Star - New World Encyclopedia
The apparent brightness of a star is measured by its apparent magnitude, which is the brightness of a star with respect to the star’s luminosity, distance from Earth, and the altering of the star’s light as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.

Star – Definition & Detailed Explanation - Sentinel Mission
Yellow Dwarf Stars: Our sun is a yellow dwarf star, with a temperature of about 5,500 degrees Celsius. These stars are medium-sized and are in the middle of the temperature range.

         

 

 

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