Fun Fact 2: What is a Star? A Star is big ball of glowing gas that started its life in Nebulae
Fun Fact 3: A Nebulae is a swirling cloud of dust and gasses, as the Nebulae spins around balls are created, these balls heat up and become stars
Fun Fact 4: Stars are mainly consist of the gasses hydrogen and helium
Fun Fact 5: Earths nearest star is the Sun! The Sun measures approximately 1,392,684 km (865,374 mi) in diameter; which is about 109 times greater than the diameter of Earth
Fun Fact 6: The Sun provides Earth with two forms of energy; heat and light. All living things on Earth need heat and light to survive; without the Sun (Earth's closest star), Earth would perish
Fun Fact 7: Stars vary in size and color; they can range in size from 450 times smaller to over 1500 times larger than the size of the Sun!
Fun Fact 8: The surface temperature of a star can range from 3,000°C to over 50,000°C. The surface temperature of a star will determine its color; the cooler stars are red in color the hotter stars are blue
Fun Fact 9: The temperature also affects the brightness of a star, the hotter the star the brighter it will be
Fun Fact 10: The Sun has a surface temperature of 5,500°C; therefore its colour appears as a yellow glowing ball
Fun Fact 11: The biggest known star in the Universe a red hyper-giant star; its size is calculated and estimated to measure 1,800 times bigger than the Sun! It is called VY Canis Majoris and was first observed by French astronomer Jérôme Lalande on 7 March 1801
Fun Fact 12: The most outstanding stars in the sky have been grouped together; the groups are called constellations. There are officially 88 different constellations of stars our hemispheres
Fun Fact 13: Examples of star constellations; Cassiopeia, Lynx, Orion, Phoenix, Scorpion and the Great Bear
Fun Fact 14: The biggest and brightest stars have individual names; the names are mostly derived from Arabic and Latin words. There are millions of stars visible to the naked eye, but only a few hundred have been officially named by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Fun Fact 15: Did you know that a shooting star is not a star? It is a meteor. Meteors are made from rock and debris that have fallen from asteroids, as they hit earth's atmosphere they burn become meteors or shooting stars |
