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	Star (Astronomy) K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		Star formation begins with gravitational instability inside those clouds, often triggered by shockwaves from supernovae or collision of two galaxies (as in a starburst galaxy).
		Eventually, most of the matter in a star is blown away by the explosion (forming nebulae such as the Crab Nebula) and what remains will be a neutron star (sometimes a pulsar or X-ray burster) or, in the case of the largest stars, a fl hole.
		The energy produced by stars radiates into space as electromagnetic radiation, as a stream of neutrinos from the star's core, and as a stream of particles from the star's outer layers (its stellar wind).
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/star.html (1962 words)

	Stars...Astroppo.com
		The nearest star to the Earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 39.9 trillion kilometres = 39.9 Pm (petametres) = 4.2 ly (light years) = 1.29 pc (parsecs) away.
		Stellar astronomy is the study of stars and the phenomena exhibited by the various forms/developmental stages of stars.
		As learned by star formation astronomers, stars are born in molecular clouds, large regions of slightly higher density of matter (though still less dense than the inside of an earthly vacuum chamber), and form by gravitational instability inside those clouds triggered by shockwaves from supernovae.
	www.astroppo.com /stars.html (1126 words)

	Tattoos Pictures
		Stars appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere and their distance from us.
		Scientifically, stars are defined as self-gravitating spheres of plasma in hydrostatic equilibrium, which generate their own energy through the process of nuclear fusion.
		As learned by star formation astronomers, stars are born in molecular clouds, large regions of slightly higher density of matter (though still less dense than the inside of an earthly vacuum chamber), and form by gravitational instability inside those clouds triggered by shockwaves from supernovae.
	www.tattoos-pictures.com /star-tattoo.htm (1297 words)

	Curious About Astronomy? Stars
		Stars are born in cold interstellar clouds like the Orion Nebula and the Eagle Nebula.
		When the hydrogen in the core of the star is depleted, the envelope of the star expands tremendously and the star becomes a red giant.
		Stars with masses below about 5 solar masses swell into red giants near the ends of their lives, after which the envelope is ejected as a planetary nebula, while the core becomes a white dwarf.
	curious.astro.cornell.edu /stars.php (1414 words)

	List of nearest stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list of the nearest stars to Earth is ordered by increasing distance out to a maximum of 5 parsecs (16.308 light years).
		Stars with an apparent magnitude greater than 6.5, and which consequently cannot be observed with the naked eye, are shown in dark grey.
		The stellar class is shown in the color of the star's spectral classification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_nearest_stars (233 words)

	List of nearest bright stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The list of nearest bright stars is a table of stars found within 15 parsecs of the Sun that have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter.
		These stars are estimated to be from 32.7 to 42.4 light years distant from the Sun.
		These stars are estimated to be from 42.5 to 48.9 light years distant from the Sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars (171 words)

	Apparent magnitude Summary
		The brightest stars were said to be of first magnitude (m = 1), while the faintest were of sixth magnitude (m = 6), the limit of human visual perception (without the aid of a telescope).
		In 1856, Pogson formalized the system by defining a typical first magnitude star as a star that is 100 times as bright as a typical sixth magnitude star; thus, a first magnitude star is about 2.512 times as bright as a second magnitude star.
		Since cooler stars, such as red giants and red dwarfs, emit little energy in the blue and UV regions of the spectrum their power is often under-represented by the UBV scale.
	www.bookrags.com /Apparent_magnitude (2041 words)

	The 26 Nearest Stars
		Note that this list is continually changing as astronomers discover nearby stars with ever more sensitive detectors in a variety of spectral ranges, especially the infrared, where numerous small stars emit their energy.
		Stars are very far apart (average about 8 lightyears for the closest dozen), compared to their size (about 2 lightseconds for the Sun); by a factor of 250 million or so.
		Many stars occur in multiple systems, shown here by the suffixes A, B and C from brightest to dimmest.
	www.astro.wisc.edu /~dolan/constellations/extra/nearest.html (195 words)

	SPACE.com -- Backyard Astronomy: Study Uncovers 12 Nearby Stars
		The nearest of the newly discovered objects is 20 light-years away, putting it at 55th on the list of closest stars.
		The stars come in three configurations: Seven are alone in space; two orbit each other in what's called a binary star system; and the remaining three are in a rarer three-star system, all orbiting each other.
		White dwarf stars are the end of the evolutionary road for smallish stars, ones that could not generate the spectacular explosions that mark the death of larger stars.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/missing_stars_020111.html (509 words)

	The Universe within 12.5 Light Years - The Nearest stars
		Roughly eighty percent of all the stars in the universe are red dwarfs, and the nearest star - Proxima - is a typical example.
		This dim red dwarf is the nearest star to the Sun, and is a member of the Alpha Centauri system despite lying 0.24 light years away from the main pair, taking over one million years to orbit them.
		Both stars are variable in brightness and have the variable star names of GX And and GQ And.
	www.ldps.ws /Mirror/Universe/12lys.html (1054 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Quark stars signal unstable universe
		When such stars use up their hydrogen fuel they explode into bright supernova, then their cores collapse into an extremely heavy ball of neutrons enveloped in a thin atmosphere containing iron and other debris from the explosion.
		The star in Corona Australis was thought to be the nearest neutron star to Earth.
		Instead of originating from a small strange quark star, the energetic rays may emanate from a hot area on the surface of a neutron star.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/05.02/01-quarkstars.html (1274 words)

	[sci.astro] Stars (Astronomy Frequently Asked Questions) (7/9)
		Neutron stars have a maximum mass of around 2 solar masses, although the exact theoretical value depends on properties of the neutron that are not known terribly accurately.
		Stars in the thin disk come in a wide variety of ages, from newborn objects to stars that are 10 billion years old.
		If the axes of the star's rotation and magnetic field are not aligned, this rotating magnetic field produces an electric field; in the case of NSs, the electric fields are strong enough to rip particles from the crust of the NS and accelerate them.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/astronomy/faq/part7 (7093 words)

	Nearby Stars Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ages of individual field (non-cluster) stars are also difficult to determine, requiring combination of a number of semi-correlated indices such as chromospheric emission intensity and rotation speed.
		Common wisdom has it that M stars are not expected to have Earth-like planets because such planets would need to be so near their primaries that tidal friction would halt or slow planets' rotation, rendering them sterile.
		Highlights of his research include examining hundreds of stars like the Sun for those with ages and activity levels appropriate for SETI searches, providing the definitive data on nearby stars for a National Geographic map of nearby space, and discovering the 20th nearest star.
	www.nstars.nau.edu /index.cfm?fuseaction=nstars.history (2488 words)

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		This pattern of solar type stars unquestionably bears a striking resemblance to the map that Betty Hill says she saw while she was being examined aboard a flying saucer.
		In 1965 a map of the stars of the constellation Pegasus appeared in that newspaper, accompanying the announcement by a Russian radio astronomer (Comrade Sholomitsky) the radio source CTA-102, depicted in the map, may be sending out intelligent radio signals.
		The bright stars comprising Gould's belt might well serve as a useful reference frame for interstellar travelers, and it is quite plausible that they might base a navigational coordinate system upon it.
	www.textfiles.com /ufo/UFOBBS/2000/2710.ufo (699 words)

	Sirius
		The two stars orbit each other with a separation of about 20 AU and a period of close to 50 years.
		In the astrology of the Middle Ages, Sirius was a Behenian fixed star, associated with beryl and juniper.
		Star of Sirius is a song by Steve Hackett on his album Voyage of the Acolyte released in 1975.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Sirius.php (1694 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sirius
		This star can be seen from every inhabited region of the Earth's surface and, in the northern hemisphere, is known as a vertex of the Winter Triangle.
		At a distance of 8.6 light years, Sirius is also one of the nearest stars to Earth.
		It is a main sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1 and has a mass about 2.4 times that of the Sun.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sirius (568 words)

	stars
		However, since the lifespan of such stars is greater than the current age of the universe (13.6 billion years), no fl dwarfs exist yet.
		One of the most massive stars known is Carinae, with 100Äì150 times as much mass as the Sun.
		the "International Star Registry") purport to sell names to stars; however, these names are not recognized by the scientific community, nor used by them, and many in the astronomy community view these organizations as frauds preying on people ignorant of how stars are in fact named.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Star.php (1990 words)

	Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Starlist is a collection of notes about individual stars, including their brightness, colors, and the stories behind their naming.
		Nearest and Brightest are lists of the top 25 or so stars in each category.
		We also attempt to explain the spectral classifications of stars, which tell us a lot about their mass, size, temperature and expected life history.
	exobio.ucsd.edu /Astronomy/stars.htm (81 words)

	A List of the Nearest Stars
		This is a list of stars that lie within 20 light years as known in the year 2006.
		Except for the closest and the brightest stars there is no real agreement on what to call these stars, but I have tried to pick fairly common names.
		The red star at the centre of this photograph is the Sun's nearest neighbour - Proxima Centauri.
	www.atlasoftheuniverse.com /nearstar.html (671 words)

	THE 100 NEAREST STARS SYSTEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This list is accurate as of 01 March 2007.
		GJ 699 1 57 17 57 48.5 +04 41 36 H 10.358 355.6 H 0.54698 0.00100 YH M4.0 V * 9.53 13.22 0.17 Barnard's Star 3.
		GJ 191 1 29 05 11 40.6 -45 01 06 H 8.670 131.4 H 0.25527 0.00086 YH M1.5 V * 8.84 10.87 0.39 Kapteyn's Star 26.
	www.chara.gsu.edu /RECONS/TOP100.htm (2019 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Naming a star is a loving gesture on your part that shows your appreciation for the person being named.
		However, the catalog of stars we use is based on a recent scientific survey of the sky that is used by many astronomers.
		If you are not sure which constellation is right for you, a list of all the constellations and some of their attributes is displayed to help you.
	www.nameastarinc.com /faq.asp (694 words)

	Nearest
		Interest in nearby stars has increased with the discovery of planets in orbit about some of these stars.
		Stars are very far apart (average about 8 light-years for the closest dozen), compared to their size (about 2 light-seconds for the Sun); by a factor of 250 million or so.
		As sensitivities of detectors improve, we may expect to see a great many more faint stars, and many of these will also be quite close to us.
	exobio.ucsd.edu /Astronomy/nearest.htm (302 words)

	The Stars
		Our star is a single yellow main sequence star with at least 9 planets.
		At the end of their life these stars expand to Red Giants and finally cast away their hull.
		Planets in the right distance around these stars would be suitable for life.
	www.grantchronicles.com /stars.htm (158 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion (7Ã—1022) stars in the known universe 1.
		One of the most massive stars known is andeta; Carinae, with 100andndash;150 times as much mass as the Sun.
		In stars with cores at 108 K and masses between 0.5 and 10 solar masses, helium can be transformed into carbon in the triple-alpha process:
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/star (2498 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a very sensual, dramatic and intense look, more appropriate for a young woman, as it can considerably harden the gaze in a mature woman, and by that age what we are after is for the mature woman to look fresh and youthful.
		The nearest star to the Earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 39.9 trillion kilometres, or 4.2 light years away (light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to reach Earth).
		There are different classifications of stars ranging from type W which are very large and bright, to M which is often just large enough to start ignition of the hydrogen.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/stars (2397 words)

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	how far are the nearest stars? - Forums powered by UBBThreads™
		The ten nearest stars are all within nine lightyears distance from our sun.
		There maybe 400,000,000,000 stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone who are all relatively nearby compared to the zillions of stars that form the 100's of billions of galaxies that make up our Universe.
		Star positions, names, types of stars and best known distances are given.
	uplink.space.com /showflat.php?Board=askastronomer&Number=405135 (1210 words)

	How far away is the nearest star from earth \| Answerbag.com
		This list of the nearest stars to Earth is ordered by increasing distance out to a maximum of 5 parsecs (16.308 light years).
		Stars with an apparent magnitude greater than 6.5, and which consequently cannot be observed with the naked eye, are shown in dark grey.
		The stellar class is shown in the color of the star's spectral classification.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/88856 (402 words)

	ASP: The Nearest Stars: A Guided Tour
		Distances among the stars are so large that it is helpful to express them using the light-year —; the distance light travels in one year — as a measuring unit.
		This very modest little star, located just six light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, is the closest star that can be studied from the Northern Hemisphere — but only with the aid of telescopes, since it is much too dim to be seen with the unaided eye.
		But stars that are quite nearby can change their positions relatively rapidly, just as an automobile on a street right next to you zips past you quickly, but cars on a distant highway seem to crawl along.
	www.astrosociety.org /education/publications/tnl/05/05.html (1980 words)

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