The top 10 heavenly bodies

Peble Jeine

Jul 19, 2021

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Stars are giant balls of gas made by Hydrogen, bound together by their own force of gravity. Stars are heavenly bodies, which shine like our sun. Many shine brightly, the others have dim glow. Some are red while others are blue. The energy that makes them shine come from a kind of power plant in their interior, where atomic nuclei of hydrogen atoms are fused together to form helium atoms. The stars do not live forever and 'die' at some point. Many simply get extinguished, while very heavy stars expand and explode. The stars shine approximately 10 billion years, till it 'dies'.

Did you know?

Many stars are 1000 times bigger than our sun.
A new star is born every 20 days.
The colour of stars ranges from red, yellow and blue.
Red is the coolest star.
Blue is the hottest star.
Yellow stars have average temperature like sun.
The 5th brightest star in the sky, Vega is about 25 light years from earth.
Millions of asteroids are found in the 'belt' between mars and Jupiter.
The twinkling of the star is caused by the swirling air in the atmosphere and does not come from the star itself.