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A Universe of Stars The Strange and the Amazing
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Nebulas
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THE BIG DIPPER
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The Sun Contains 99.8% of all the mass in the Solar System 700 Million tons of hydrogen converted to helium every second Average surface temperature of 10,000 Fahrenheit
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Our Closest Star MarsProxima Centauri 4.2 Light Years Away 24 Trillion Miles 54.6 Million Kilometers 34 Million Miles
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Dwarf Stars Red Dwarf Blue Dwarf White Dwarf Black Dwarf Brown Dwarf Yellow Dwarf
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Giant and Supergiant Stars 4-70 times the mass of the Sun Short life spans
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Stars that go Nova Only occurs in binary systems A star can go Nova several times
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Supernova in Galaxy NGC 4526 Supernovas can be brighter than the entire galaxy
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Neutron Stars 1 teaspoon of it’s matter would weigh a billion tons on earth Rotates 10-100 times per second 1 solar flare releases 100 times the energy the sun does in a year
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Black Holes Remains of a supernova star with a mass at least 10 times that of the sun The Black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy has the mass of 1 million suns Gravity so great not even light can escape
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Quasars Releases more energy than Hundreds of galaxies combined A trillion times brighter than The sun Thought to be matter trapped In the accretion disc of a Super massive black hole
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Exiled Stars Star that has escaped the gravity of their galaxy Slung out of a Black Hole Move at incredible speeds
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The Unknown For all of the stars we have seen and recorded in the Universe, over 99 percent of them are unaccounted for
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