What is an eclipse in science? What makes up a moon crater? What is the Kohoutek Comet? What is a gibeon meteorite? What is Mars' asteroid belt? What is a protostar? How deep is the Copernicus crater? What did Ptolemy do for astronomy?
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Stars may appear as tiny twinkling specks in the night sky but are really made of enormous burning balls of gas, usually hydrogen and helium. Learn about different types of stars and their life cycles. What is a Star? It's a cloudless night and you're sitting outside, looking up at ...
After the protostar phase, the life cycle of an average star starts with a yellow dwarf phase. The Sun is an example of a yellow dwarf, also known as a main-sequence star. When a star begins its main sequence life, it is fusing hydrogen to helium within the core. Throughout the life...
A falling star is a colloquialism that is commonly used in the English language. However, it can also be considered as a type of a misnomer, as well. Meteoroid FactsA meteorite is a piece of matter, such as a rock, that passes into the Earth's atmosphere and hits the Earth's surface...
After about a million years or so, a small, hot (1500 degrees Kelvin), dense core forms in the disc's center called a protostar. As gas and dust continue to fall inward in the disc, they give up energy to the protostar, which heats up more When the temperature of the protostar reach...
Humanity is not seperate from nature, but a part of nature itself. Credit: Unsplash At the core of the most pressing global issues of our time is a crisis of identity, where culture meets ecology. The importance of the environment is often downplayed as merely one in a sea of global iss...
Tars Lamora prison colony where they are all held captive. Working together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the deadly threat that is pursuing ...
What happens to turn a protostar into a star? During which phase(s) can the Moon be seen high up in the sky during the day? (To answer the question, consider the central period of the day: 10 am to 2 pm) At which phase(s) of the moon do the highest and lowest tides occur?