STARS AND SPACE

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Lets go on a journey and explore a stars life
from birth to death
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Now lets take a tour on the virtual gallery
to see what happens in these lifestages
of a star.
 WHITE
DWARF
PLANETARY
NEBULA
SKIP TOUR
GIANT
RED

STAR
AVERAGE
NEBULA
NEBULA
A nebula can be said
as an interstellar cloud
of dust and gases such
as hydrogen and helium.
Most nebulae are of vast size
, some are even hundreds of
light years in diameter

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Nebula – The parent of a Star
Nebulae can be said as the
parent of a star as the gases
in a nebula come together
to form a dense body A star forming
which later forms a star.
The gases and dust that
are left later form stars.

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 Examples

Orion Nebula Eagle Nebula Rosette Nebula

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AVERAGE STAR
An average star, or
intermediate-mass star, is
a star with an initial mass of
0.5 to 8 times that of Earth's
sun. It spends most of its
time on the main sequence
as an orange, yellow, or blue-
white dwarf star
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 Examples

Proxima The Sun Tau Ceti

Centauri
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RED GIANT
When hydrogen fuel at the
centre of a star is exhausted,
nuclear reactions will start move
outwards into its atmosphere
and burn the hydrogen that's in
a shell surrounding the core. As
a result, the outside of the star
starts to expand and cool,
turning much redder.
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Examples

Mira Gacrux

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PLANETARY NEBULA
A planetary nebula is an expanding,
glowing shell of hot gas
(plasma) that is cast off towards the
end of a low-mass star's life.
Despite the name, they have
nothing to do with planets, and were
so named because early
astronomers thought they looked a
bit like planets through a small
telescope.
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 Examples

Dumbbell Cat Eye’s Nebula Eskimo

Nebula Nebula
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WHITE DWARF
A white dwarf, also called a
degenerate dwarf, is a stellar
core remnant composed mostly
of electron-degenerate
matter. ... White dwarfs are
thought to be the final
evolutionary state of stars
whose mass is not high enough
to become a neutron star or
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 Examples

Sirius B Procyon B Van Maneen

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Constellations
 •A constellation is a name given to a group of
stars in the sky that make up a certain
pattern
•When the sky is clear these stars can be seen
What are from Earth without the use of a telescope
constellations ? •Constellation is a Latin word meaning “set
with stars”.
•astronomers use the term constellation to
refer to an area of the sky.
Examples of constellations
Ursa Major
Ursa Major is a constellation in the northern sky,
whose associated mythology likely dates back
into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater
she-bear," referring to and contrasting it with
nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear
Orion

•Orion is a prominent constellation

located on the celestial equator and
visible throughout the world. It is
one of the most conspicuous and
recognizable constellations in the
night sky. It is named after Orion, a
hunter in Greek mythology. Its
brightest stars are blue-white Rigel
and red Betelgeuse
Cassiopeia

•Cassiopeia is a constellation in the

northern sky named after the vain
queen Cassiopeia, mother of
Andromeda, in Greek mythology,
who boasted about her unrivaled
beauty
German Contribution to
Space
Science
 "Zeit und Rauxm sind Modi,
nach denen wir denken,
und nicht Bedingungen, in denen wir leben.„
- Albert Einstein
Er war ein deutscher Astronom,
Mathematiker und Astrologe. Er
ist eine Schlüsselfigur in der
wissenschaftlichen Revolution
des 17. Jahrhunderts, die am
besten für seine Gesetze der
Planetenbewegung bekannt ist.
Er war ein in Deutschland
geborener theoretischer
Wissenschaftler, der die
Relativitätstheorie
entwickelte, eine der beiden
Säulen der modernen Physik.
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