What is the name of the star that will fall from the heavens, it starts with Wool-something?
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Re 8:11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
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The sun is the closest star to Earth.
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Due North.  There are a couple of ways to find it.  One is to face due north and look up a bit.  If you know your latitude, you can find the North Star by looking up that many degrees from the horizon.  Hence, if you're in SF like me, the North Star will be ~38 degrees above the horizon.\n\nThe easier way is to find the Big Dipper\nhttp://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/constellations/bigdipper.gif\nWhich is a prominent and easy constellation to find in the northern sky.  Then, close one eye, stretch out your arm, and spread your fingers so that the front two stars (across from the "handle") are each covered by one of your fingers.  Those front two stars point right at the North Star.  Trac out in a straight line from those two stars, going "up" (if you imagine the dipper being oriented in a way that it would hold water) for a distance that is five times the distance between those two front stars.  So if you swing your arm along, placing the lower finger where the top finger just was, and keeping the spacing of your fingers steady, it will direct you to a bright star.  That star is the North Star.
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It depends on the mass of the star in question. For example, a star is born, it grows old, it gets larger (Red giant stage) and it dies. Depending on its mass and newly discovered turbulence inside a star before collapse, it will either go supernova and create a planetary nebula and reduce to a white dwarf, or go supernova, continue to collapse and turn into a black hole. It all depends on the mass of the star, and the amount and directionality of the turbulence inside the star's core.
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A nebula (Latin: "mist"; pl. nebulae or nebulæ, with ligature) is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas and plasma. Originally nebula was a general name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way (some examples of the older usage survive; for example, the Andromeda Galaxy is sometimes referred to as the Andromeda Nebula).
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seeing two falling stars in the past six months is not normal\n\n\n\n\nfollow ants\n\ntalk with animals\n\nquietly listen\n\nlisten to the wind\n\nlisten to the creak of the branches\n\nlisten to the flutter of the leaves\n\nimgaine:  spiders weaving\nbeetles breathing\nplants growing\n\nlearn the language of nature\n\nyour life outdoors, especially at night could be your primary source of\neducation\n\n(i am unable to recall the last time i saw a falling star)
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Stars are huge, very, very hot balls of gas that shine brightly. Stars like all other matter is made up of millions of atoms. The simplest and lightest element is hydrogen gas. Enormous clouds of hydrogen gas and dust particles form in space. Gravity draws the dust and gas close together forming a huge clump, or mass.\n\nAs more and more matter is added to the mass, its gravity increases. This pushes the atoms of hydrogen gas closer and closer together. The mass begins to contract, or get smaller. It also gets denser and hotter. The center is hottest of all because the atoms are being squeezed together. The heat creates tremendous energy. Energy is the power necessary to make things happen.\n\nFinally, the crowding of the atoms, the heat, and the violent energy forces the hydrogen atoms to combine. This makes a new and heavier element called helium. The change of hydrogen gas to helium gas is called thermonuclear fusion. When this happens a star is born.\n\nTherefore , stars appear to be circular in shape because of the gravitational pull the mass exerts from all sides. It attracts hydrogen and dust particles with equal force from all sides and hence from a distance when we look at a star , it appears like a shining ball to us. When the Helium gas reaction takes place , it still appears cirular to us since the gravitational pull inside the star holds it together with equal force in all directions. \n\nThroughout a star's life, thermonuclear fusion goes on in its core, creating enormous energy. That energy becomes light and heat. It makes the star shine.\n\nThe new star will shine in the heavens for billions of years. It will stay that way until all its hydrogen gas has changed to helium.\n\nWhen a star has finally turned all its hydrogen into helium it is nearing the end of its life. Scientists believe that the amount of mass left in the dead star determines what will become of it.\n\nWhen a star has finally turned all its hydrogen into helium it is nearing the end of its life. Scientists believe that the amount of mass left in the dead star determines what will become of it.\n\nWhen an even bigger star — a giant star — uses up all its energy, it collapses even more than a white dwarf. Its mass and gravity are much greater. No space is left between the atoms. Electrons and protons inside the atoms are pushed together. They become neutrons and the giant star shrinks to a very small size. It is called a "neutron star" and is usually only a few kilometers in diameter. But its mass is so great that a tiny bit of neutron star — less than a teaspoonful — would weigh about half a trillion kilograms. That's as much as a long freight train loaded with bricks!\n\nSometimes, when a giant star collapses, particles called neutrinos are forced out of the atoms. As the neutrinos burst forth from the dying star, the star shines more brightly than any other object in the galaxy. It looks like an enormous sparkler. This is a "supernova."\n\nWhen the amount of mass left in a dying star is three or more times the mass of the sun, something very mysterious happens. A star this massive shrinks much faster than the white dwarf and the neutron star. Its force of gravity is very great. Nothing can escape it — not even light, which moves faster than anything else in the universe. This star becomes a "black hole."\n\nMany astrophysicists believe that there are black holes at the center of most galaxies, including our Milky Way. Although that may be so, our solar system is too far removed from the black hole for us to be influenced by its pull of gravity.\n\nAnother popular belief about black holes is that it can be a very vital tool in time travel\n\nCheck these links :) very interesting :) \n\nhttp://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q285.html\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/time-travel3.htm
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I believe that would be Russian. Typically names ending in "sky" are of Russian decent.
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Where new stars are being born.
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sun....its a star btw but there are stars bigger than the sun
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hubstars?\n\nSirius, The dog star is reputed to be of life bearing.
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Brian is right, but I have to add a smart-ass remark that sun will burn up and go out in a few million years, but by then the humankind will either destroy itself, or find a way to move on to other stars.
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It will - every sun eventually burns out it is simply a huge star.  It will burn out in like a billion years or something lol.
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The star begins as a cool cloud of gas. Under its own gravity, the cloud begins to collapse. As it collapses, it releases its gravitational energy as radiation. So a young star is cool but bright. We usually don't see these proto-stars, however, because they are generally shrouded in dust and only give off light. \n\nThe proto-star continues to collapse, and as it does, it gets hotter and hotter. "Stars" less than a percent of the Sun's mass eventually halt their collapse due to gas pressure. These stars are "brown dwarfs" or "giant planets," like Jupiter. They never ignite their hydrogen, and gradually dim away. \n\nStars larger than about 0.05 to 0.07 solar masses contract, getting hotter and hotter, until their cores are hot enough to begin burning hydrogen. When a star "turns on" its hydrogen-burning phase, we say that it has reached the main sequence, and is a true star, not a protostar, brown dwarf, or planet. The main sequence is a line of stars plotted on the HR-diagram, which represent stars which are burning hydrogen, fusing it into helium. The fusion process in the core releases heat and light, supporting the star against further gravitational collapse, and making it shine. Stars spend most of their life in one spot on the main sequence. Very massive stars live at the top of the main sequence, shining very blue and very bright, while low-mass stars are dim and red. The sun is between these two extremes. \n\nEventually, the hydrogen in the core whose fusion supports the star begins to run out. The core becomes mostly helium (the product of hydrogen fusion), and hydrogen burning moves out away from the core, forming a burning shell around the core. When this happens, the core begins to collapse again, but the outer regions of the star are pushed outwards. The star becomes brighter and cooler. This is the Red Giant stage. When the sun reaches the Red Giant stage, 5 billion years from now, it will likely grow to engulf Mercury, Venus, and the Earth. \n\nIf the star has little mass, it may end its life here, throwing off its outer layers, creating a planetary nebula out of its atmosphere, and a hot, dense "white dwarf" out of its core. The white dwarf shines only by residual left-over heat, and will eventually fade into a mere cinder. Cores of stars at least half as massive as the sun, however, will eventually collapse and heat enough to start burning helium in their cores. Once helium-burining starts, the star decends the giant branch again, reverses its swelling a bit, and lives happily fusing helium in its core, and hydrogen in a shell around the core. \n\nThen the giant dance begins again. The core helium runs out, and the star once again becomes a red giant. Stars like the sun get off the bus here, and become planetary nebulae and white dwarfs. Heavier stars begin burning carbon. This happens over and over again with heavier and heavier elements. The star ascends and descends the giant branch many times. Lighter stars that don't get hot enough in their cores to burn the next element become planetary nebulae and white dwarfs. Stars that are heavy enough eventually heat their cores enough to begin the next stage of burning and descend the giant branch for a while. For each element, the process is quicker and quicker. A star might burn Hydrogen on the main sequence for billions of years, but once this process gets to, say, silicon, the star might burn silicon for only a few days. \n\nA very massive star, more than 5-10 times solar mass, will ascend and descend the giant branch many times, until the star is ready to burn iron. But iron fusion doesn't release energy; it sucks it up. So what happens is that the star is ascending the giant branch, its iron core is collapsing and heating, until iron is ready to fuse. As soon as it does, though, it absorbs all of the heat around it, chilling the core. All fusion abrubtly stops, and the star implodes. The rebou
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From the reference listed below:\n\nIn 1913 Henry N. Russell was the first to plot the absolute magnitude vs. the spectral types. He latter collaborated with Eignar Hertzberg to develop Russell - Hertzberg diagram which relates the brightness of stars to it's temperature. Russell found that the stars do not randomly fall on the graph, but tend to congregate in restricted domains.\n\nMost of the congregational stars are dwarfs belonging to what is called the main sequence. They range from hot blue objects 10,000 or more times brighter than the Sun, down through the A stars such as Procyon, through the sun down to K stars and finally to the faint red dwarfs thousands of times fainter than the Sun.
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with an apparent magnitude of -1.4, Sirius (or Alpha Canis Major) is the brightest star not only in the winter sky, but in all of the sky.  it can be found by following Orion's belt down and to the left.  if you go up and to the right along Orion's belt, you encounter Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus the Bull.\n\nSirius is about 8 light years away, and is a triple body system.  There is Sirius, the A0 star that is quite visible, a white dwarf (visible only in very large telescopes), and another dark, dead companion whose effects are only visible by how its gravity affects Sirius and the white dwarf.
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A shooting star is something you would find on a bugs bunny episode.