Our sun is classified as the yellow type of these "small" stars
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What Kind of Star is the Sun? - Universe Today  According to their system of classification, the Sun is known as a yellow dwarf star. This group of stars are relatively small, containing between 80% and 100%...
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Star Classification - Zoom Astronomy - Enchanted Learning  The Sun is a as a G2V type star, a yellow dwarf and a main sequence star. ... These stars are in the most stable part of their existence; this stage generally lasts ... Dwarf stars are relatively small stars, up to 20 times larger than our sun and up...
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HR Diagram  These diagrams, called the Hertzsprung-Russell or HR diagrams, plot ... Our Sun is a fairly average star and sits near the middle. ... The spectral classification types were more accurate then attempts to measure ... Large objects cool faster (emit energy faster) than small objects, so there must be some correlation with radius.
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Stellar classification - Wikipedia  In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral .... Because the classification sequence predates our understanding that it is a .... Class II: yellow starshydrogen less strong, but evident metallic lines, such as the Sun, .... K-type stars are orangish stars that are slightly cooler than the Sun.
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Facts About Stars - Solar System  Very large stars have a lifespan of only a few million years while very small stars can ... The Sun in the center of our solar system is a Yellow Dwarf, these are stars that ... Dwarfs is G whereas Yellow-White Dwarfs are classified as F type stars.
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Free Flashcards about GENERAL SCIENCE - StudyStack  ONE OF THE SMALLEST OF THESE "WHITE" DIMINUTIVE STARS IS VAN MAANEN'S STAR AT 7,800 MILES IN DIAMETER, WHITE DWARF. CRICKETS...
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Free Flashcards about GENERAL SCIENCE - StudyStack  SCIENTISTS FIGURE THE EARLIEST ATMOSPHERE ON EARTH WAS FROM ..... VAN MAANEN'S STAR, ONE OF THESE SMALL STARS, IS ONLY ABOUT THE ... IN THIS CONSTELLATION BECAME THE FIRST STAR WHOSE SIZE WAS...
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plagiarism - Homeschool-Life.com  CECILIA BAMBAUM, WHO HAS GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO ... colors. Everyone is interested in astronomical images, especially since the launch of ... and Rigel is blue is that their surface ... Orion is very red because its temperature is ... Hot stars at 30,000 degrees emit a lot more ... been classified as such due either to the.
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Introduction to Basic Stellar Astronomy - The Internet Stellar Database  So, to understand the stars, you must first understand our own sun. ... process that powers a hydrogen bomb; it also provides all the energy the sun now emits. ... of the sun, in which these nuclear fusion reactions take place, is called the core. ... turn a brighter red, then orange, then yellow (the sun's color), and finally white.
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The Classification of Stellar Spectra  The original scheme used capital letters running alphabetically, but .... M type giants, S type stars show heavier elements such as zirconium, yttrium, and barium.
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Sirius - Wikipedia  Sirius is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth's night sky. With a visual apparent ... The system has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris ( CMa). ... and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, called Sirius B. The .... 1862, American telescope-maker and astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first...
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The Sun and Stellar Structure - Astronomy Notes  Aug 18, 2011 ... The small terrestrial planets and tiny Pluto are in the box---the Earth is the blue ... It has so much mass that it is able to produce its own light. ... than the dense metal iron which has a density of ``only'' 7 times that of water. ... energy is transported from the superhot interior to the colder outer layers by photons.
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Ursa Minor - Wikipedia  Ursa Minor also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation in the Northern Sky. Like the Great ... The constellation also contains an isolated neutron starCalveraand ... Ursa Minor is colloquially known in the US as the Little Dipper because its ... Only lambda and pi remain in use, likely because of their proximity to the...
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Sirius - Alpha Canis Majoris - alpha CMa | Free Star Charts  Sirius is also known as the "Dog Star" and what's immediately noticeable is it twinkles! ... In practice all stars do twinkle, also to a lesser extent the planets, but the effect is ... The primary component is a white main-sequence star of spectral type A1V ... Clark finally discovered the companion, now named Sirius B or the "Pup".
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J! Archive - Show #2977, aired 1997-07-08  Corvus, a small constellation south of Virgo, is said to represent this black bird ... The red marking on a black widow is described as this shape...
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What is the brightest star? - NASA Space Place  Of course, the star that appears the brightest to all of us on Earth is the Sun. Although it is a ... Even the next closest star is more than a quarter of a million times farther from Earth, so it is not surprising that the light from the Sun overwhelms that from other stars. ... You can see one of them any clear night this summer. Deneb...
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The White Dwarf A. C. +708247, the Smallest Star Known  Adams and Humason2 have published the spectral types of these two stars and of ... on the first star mentioned, while reference is made to the spectrum of one other .... Sirius B; and van Maanen's star if we. assume Oort's interpretation of the red .... if a star collapses, and becomes a white dwarf 100 tunes smaller in size, the...
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Life Cycles of Stars - UWGB Home  Mar 26, 1998 ... In interstellar space, far from other stars, a cloud of gas can be very thin and still be ... Some of these newly-discovered objects are so massive they may be so-called ... Our own sun will shine for perhaps 10 billion years, but bright ... out of available fuel, the nuclear reactions in the center of the star die out.
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Alpha Centauri, closest to our sun | Brightest Stars | EarthSky  May 19, 2016 ... Third star in the system, a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri, is our sun's closest neighbor at about 4.22 light-years. The Alpha Centauri system is the closest star system to our sun. On our sky's dome, we see this multiple system as a single star  the third-brightest star visible from Earth.
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Brussell Sprout: Gigantic Celestial Wrecking Ball Headed Toward ...  Oct 2, 2016 ... Most of these groups are heavily infiltrated by trolls, but you can still find ... The sky was all lit up in yellow in the middle of the night on Sept. ... It's pretty obvious that our solar system has been invaded by multiple celestial objects. ... has been turning orange and red lately as a result of Planet X getting closer.
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Red supergiant - Wikipedia  Red supergiants (RSGs) are supergiant stars (luminosity class I) of spectral type K or M. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of volume, although they are not the most massive. Betelgeuse and Antares are the brightest and best known red supergiants, ... These hypergiant spectral classifications are very rarely applied to red...