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Bookmark or Share- NASA's Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU OrionisIn 1936, young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) underwent a significant increase in brightness and has slowly declined in luminosity ever since. Once considered to be a stand-alone case, scientists have noted a small class of extremely tumultuous, young stars that experience large escalations in brightness, known as FU Ori objects.
- Star outside the Milky Way seen about to blow in closeup image - EarthSkyThis is the 1st-ever close-up picture of a star outside our home galaxy, the Milky Way.The star is called WOH G64. It lies in a neighboring galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is ...
- Star | Definition, Light, Names, & Facts | Britannicastar, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the observable universe, only a very small percentage are visible to the naked eye.Many stars occur in pairs, multiple systems, or star clusters.The members of such stellar groups are physically related through common ...
- Star - WikipediaA star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. [1] The nearest star to Earth is the Sun.Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names.
- What is a star? | SpaceIt's easy enough to say what a star is: one of those bright pointy things that twinkle in the night sky. But the actual definition of a star is as rich and colorful as the stars themselves.
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