I Love These Comics! Thanks So Much To @cosmicfunnies For Doing An Asteroid Comic This Week! 😍

I love these comics! Thanks so much to @cosmicfunnies for doing an asteroid comic this week! 😍

Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!
Starry Greetings!

Starry Greetings!

Here is a comic on Asteroids!

https://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html

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6 years ago

Interesting facts about stars

Stars are giant, luminous spheres of plasma. There are billions of them — including our own sun — in the Milky Way Galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies in the universe. So far, we have learned that hundreds also have planets orbiting them.

1. Stars are made of the same stuff

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All stars begin from clouds of cold molecular hydrogen that gravitationally collapse. As they cloud collapses, it fragments into many pieces that will go on to form individual stars. The material collects into a ball that continues to collapse under its own gravity until it can ignite nuclear fusion at its core. This initial gas was formed during the Big Bang, and is always about 74% hydrogen and 25% helium. Over time, stars convert some of their hydrogen into helium. That’s why our Sun’s ratio is more like 70% hydrogen and 29% helium. But all stars start out with Ÿ hydrogen and ÂŒ helium, with other trace elements.

2. Most stars are red dwarfs

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If you could collect all the stars together and put them in piles, the biggest pile, by far, would be the red dwarfs. These are stars with less than 50% the mass of the Sun. Red dwarfs can even be as small as 7.5% the mass of the Sun. Below that point, the star doesn’t have the gravitational pressure to raise the temperature inside its core to begin nuclear fusion. Those are called brown dwarfs, or failed stars. Red dwarfs burn with less than 1/10,000th the energy of the Sun, and can sip away at their fuel for 10 trillion years before running out of hydrogen.

3. Mass = temperature = color

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The color of stars can range from red to white to blue. Red is the coolest color; that’s a star with less than 3,500 Kelvin. Stars like our Sun are yellowish white and average around 6,000 Kelvin. The hottest stars are blue, which corresponds to surface temperatures above 12,000 Kelvin. So the temperature and color of a star are connected. Mass defines the temperature of a star. The more mass you have, the larger the star’s core is going to be, and the more nuclear fusion can be done at its core. This means that more energy reaches the surface of the star and increases its temperature. There’s a tricky exception to this: red giants. A typical red giant star can have the mass of our Sun, and would have been a white star all of its life. But as it nears the end of its life it increases in luminosity by a factor of 1000, and so it seems abnormally bright. But a blue giant star is just big, massive and hot.

4. Most stars come in multiples

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It might look like all the stars are out there, all by themselves, but many come in pairs. These are binary stars, where two stars orbit a common center of gravity. And there are other systems out there with 3, 4 and even more stars. Just think of the beautiful sunrises you’d experience waking up on a world with 4 stars around it.

5. The biggest stars would engulf Saturn

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Speaking of red giants, or in this case, red supergiants, there are some monster stars out there that really make our Sun look small. A familiar red supergiant is the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion. It has about 20 times the mass of the Sun, but it’s 1,000 times larger. But that’s nothing. The largest known star is the monster UY Scuti.  It is a current and leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius and is also one of the most luminous of its kind. It has an estimated radius of 1,708 solar radii (1.188×109 kilometres; 7.94 astronomical units); thus a volume nearly 5 billion times that of the Sun.

6. There are many, many stars

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Quick, how many stars are there in the Milky Way. You might be surprised to know that there are 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy. Each one is a separate island in space, perhaps with planets, and some may even have life.

7. The Sun is the closest star

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Okay, this one you should know, but it’s pretty amazing to think that our own Sun, located a mere 150 million km away is average example of all the stars in the Universe. Our own Sun is classified as a G2 yellow dwarf star in the main sequence phase of its life. The Sun has been happily converting hydrogen into helium at its core for 4.5 billion years, and will likely continue doing so for another 7+ billion years. When the Sun runs out of fuel, it will become a red giant, bloating up many times its current size. As it expands, the Sun will consume Mercury, Venus and probably even Earth. 

8. The biggest stars die early

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Small stars like red dwarfs can live for trillions of years. But hypergiant stars, die early, because they burn their fuel quickly and become supernovae. On average, they live only a few tens of millions of years or less.

9. Failed stars

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Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, of approximately 13 to 75–80 Jupiter masses (MJ). Below this range are the sub-brown dwarfs, and above it are the lightest red dwarfs (M9 V). Unlike the stars in the main-sequence, brown dwarfs are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen (1H) to helium in their cores.

10. Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night Sky

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Sirius is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth’s night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The system has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris (α CMa). What the naked eye perceives as a single star is a binary star system, consisting of a white main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, called Sirius B. 

To know more click the links: white dwarf, supernova, +stars, pulsars

sources: wikipedia and universetoday.com

image credits: NASA/JPL, Morgan Keenan, ESO, Philip Park / CC BY-SA 3.0

6 years ago
This Mosaic Image From The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft Is Centered At 9 Degrees North Latitude,

This mosaic image from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is centered at 9 degrees north latitude, 254 degrees west longitude. The image was acquired at a distance of about 57,800 km from Rhea.

Image credit: NASA/JPL

6 years ago
What Friday's Extra-Long Lunar Eclipse Can Tell Us About The Earth
The moon will turn orange or even red. And the eclipse — expected to be the longest this century — will be best to see in eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, eastern Europe and south Asia.
6 years ago

'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars

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What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from our Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named Westerhout 40 (W40), the butterfly is a nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form. The butterfly’s two “wings” are giant bubbles of hot, interstellar gas blowing from the hottest, most massive stars in this region.

Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them. Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. Sometimes these clumps reach a critical density that allows stars to form at their cores. Radiation and winds coming from the most massive stars in those clouds — combined with the material spewed into space when those stars eventually explode — sometimes form bubbles like those in W40. But these processes also disperse the gas and dust, breaking up dense clumps and reducing or halting new star formation.

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6 years ago
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Opportunity

6 years ago
The Aurora And The Sunrise : Auroras Are One Of The Many Earthly Phenomena The Crew Of The International

The Aurora and the Sunrise : Auroras are one of the many Earthly phenomena the crew of the International Space Station observe from their perch high above the planet. (via NASA)

6 years ago
VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET

VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET

This is truly incredible.

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Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.

6 years ago

Maybe we shouldn’t have given Pluto unrealistic expectations of reality. đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™€ïž

A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!
A Gifset Of Planet Facts Because I Rlly Love Space!!

a gifset of planet facts because i rlly love space!!

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