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    The Carina Nebula Since the beginning of time, man has looked up to the stars and reveled in its beauty, believing that only gods can be responsible for creating such a beautiful night time sky. For centuries humans have grappled with questions relating to the sky and our place as humans in the cosmos. In today’s modern age, it seems that most of us (myself included) forget to look up and appreciate nature’s mysterious beauty. For this reason, I chose the most beautiful and mysterious place in the

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    (light-years) from earth. It was discovered in 1751-52 by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and was later found to be one of the largest emission stars in the galaxy. Its entire mass is around 900,000 solar masses which is equivalent to 270 million pounds. It contains several open clusters of stars along with many O-type stars. It used to contain thousands of more stars than it does today, but many self-destructed. It is home to the Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16

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    The Tale of Green Harbor

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    seen from the shore and people can even swim with them if they wish. Where you see people in trees and giant lizards wandering around, where carpets can levitate and waves curl into tubes and and fish can fly and birds can sing, where the sun shines bright and everyone is greeted with a grin. In this special place pearls cause the water to sparkle and the sun causes the pearls to make underwater rainbows among the schools of colorful unique fish. If you look closely and try really hard you might see

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    -75°. The Orion Sandefur 2 constellation consists of many stars, the most notable stars are: Betelgeuse, Meissa, Bellatrix, Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka, Saiph, Rigel, and M42. The constellation mainly consists of bright blue supergiant stars, the most notable star is the red supergiant Betelgeuse which lies on Orion's shoulder. The star Betelgeuse, is a red giant and one of the largest stars known. It is the only star in the sky large enough and close enough to have been imaged

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    Halos Research Paper

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    of the most common types of galaxies in the universe. Halos are the gaseous atmospheres of galaxies. The properties of these gaseous halos control the rate at which stars form in galaxies according to models of galaxy formation, explained the lead Nicolas Lehner. The gargantuan halo is estimated to contain half the mass of the stars in the Andromeda galaxy itself, in the form of a hot, diffuse gas. If it could be viewed with the naked eye, the halo would be 100 times the diameter of the full Moon

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    of millions of stars. In pictures form the Hubble telescope, the galaxy is highlighted by a fluorescent blue in the center of it.

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    Star Formation

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    own gravity. This is when a star begins to form. The cloud begins to form into a rotating disk, with the inner section rotating faster than the outer. The center will begin to heat up because of the pressure and thermonuclear reactions start in its center. Eventually, two hydrogen atoms get squeezed together with extreme pressure so that they fuse into one atom of helium, releasing a massive amount of energy, when this happens; the object is now a protostar. As the star ages, it begins to run out

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    Cygnus A is a radio galaxy, and one of the strongest radio sources in the sky. It was discovered byGrote Reber in 1939. In 1951, Cygnus A, along with Cassiopeia A, and Puppis A were the first "radio stars" identified with an optical source. Of these, Cygnus A became the first radio galaxy; the other two being nebulae inside the Milky Way.[3] In 1953 Roger Jennison and M K Das Gupta showed it to be a double source.[4] Like all radio galaxies, it contains an active galactic nucleus. Images of the galaxy

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    Astronomers can use the light given off by stars for many things. With the light given off by stars they can see the distance that the star is located from earth. They can also use the light given off by stars to see what that star is composed of. When something is burnt to the point that it glows, for example stars, it shows features that can help you decide what the star is made up of. This is because unique chemicals give off its own unique spectrum of light when they are burnt to the point that

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    Helium Research Paper

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    This is a giant star that had consumed its core .helium is accumulated in the core. The star takes on a red color after a helium burning red giant run out of helium in its core the star's core starts to collapse and heat up .They are the largest known stars .They are very similar to red giants .This star is nebulosity surrounding a star’s shell or envelope of nebulosity. This star is made of dust ,hydrogen helium and more gases . It usually can be found in between planets. Originally nebular was

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