'Nearby star' diaporamas de présentation

Characteristics of Stars

Characteristics of Stars. Characteristics of Stars. Constellations are imaginary patterns of stars. Astronomers use these patterns to locate objects in the night sky. Constellations. Although the stars in a constellation look as if they are close to one another, they generally are not.

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Observing How Habitable Conditions Develop (Or Not) in Protoplanetary Disks

Observing How Habitable Conditions Develop (Or Not) in Protoplanetary Disks. ?. Colette Salyk National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Credit: JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). Credit: NASA. Why studying protoplanetary disks is important for understanding habitability.

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Stars

Stars. Chapter 30. 30.1 The Sun . The Sun is the largest object in the solar system in both size and mass The Sun is about 330,000 times as massive as Earth and 1048 times as massive as Jupiter The Sun contains 99% of all mass in the solar system

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Today:

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Jurassic park

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Chandra Science Highlight

Chandra Science Highlight. Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS image. BP Psc: An Enigmatic Emission-line Star. The composite images show X-ray (purple) and optical data orange, green and blue) for BP Piscium (BP Psc), a peculiar star thought to be a red giant star.

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