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By Sim & Summer
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=3200c =10000c =4900c =30000c or a bit more! =6000c
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Sirius B : 0.08 the size of the sun! Alpha Centauri: 1.2 the size of the sun! Vega: 2 the size of the sun! Capella: 13 the size of the sun! Aldebaran: 46 the size of the sun! Betelgeuse:230 the size of the sun!
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When a massive star dies, it does so in a spectacular explosion known as a supernova Supernovas are very rare.Of the roughly 200 stars in our galaxy, only one explodes per century on avarage!
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AA high mass star is a star which is anything over 8 times the mass of the sun!
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There are giant stars in space that can be 100 times larger than the sun, there are dwarf stars that can be 100 times smaller than the sun!
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The smaller stars live longer, it lives for billions of years, big stars die out in a few million years !
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There are giant stars in space that can be 100 times larger than the sun, there are dwarf stars that can be 100 times smaller !
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Light travels at an amazing 300,000 kilometers per second !
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The biggest star known is the hypergiant Cygnus, witch is 810,000 times as bright as the sun !
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