A 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 …

Dec 20, 2025 · A star is 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 in the …

May 2, 2025 · A star’s gas provides its fuel, and its mass determines how rapidly it runs through its supply, with lower-mass stars burning longer, dimmer, and cooler than very massive stars.

May 8, 2025 · How does a star work? How do they form, live, and eventually die? Learn more about these distant objects and their major importance in the universe.

Dec 20, 2025 · The simplest way to describe a star is that it is a great ball of fire, but it is more complicated than that. A star is a giant ball of hydrogen turning into helium through nuclear …

Oct 22, 2025 · Yellow Dwarf Stars: Our sun is a yellow dwarf star, with a temperature of about 5,500 degrees Celsius. These stars are medium-sized and are in the middle of the …

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The apparent brightness of a star is measured by its apparent magnitude, which is the brightness of a star with respect to the star’s luminosity, distance from Earth, and the altering of the star’s …

Sep 21, 2024 · As a star approaches the end of its lifespan, it no longer has hydrogen to transform into helium in its core. Unable to complete the nuclear fusion process, the star …

Dec 20, 2025 · Star - Formation, Evolution, Lifecycle: Throughout the Milky Way Galaxy (and even near the Sun itself), astronomers have discovered stars that are well evolved or even …