15 Mind-Blowing facts about Stars

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Stars look like cute white colored ice cream. But actually they contains full of very hot gas contaminated with its own gravity.
You are looking at around 2,500 stars at most. That’s about 1/100,000,000th of the total stars just in our own galaxy.
The Milky Way contains between 100 and 400 billion stars, But keep in mind it is still a estimation.
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Milky way

 

The closest star to our sun is Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light years away, or 70,000 years away in our fastest spacecraft.
The largest stars are called as VY Canis Majoris. which has diameter with the size of 1,500 of our suns.
Neutron star, Due to gravitational collapse it formed – Which will have only 25km in width but the mass of its about 3 times of Sun and 1million times of earth. Imagine a Fork having mass of 1000 Great Pyramids of Giza.
Did you that the visible at night will be 1000 times brighter than our sun.
The stars in sky which colored blue are the hottest stars more than what you imagine.
Estimated heavy star supernova turned into black holes.

 

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Black hole

 

The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is known as a G2 yellow dwarf star.
It is estimated as humans can see upto 2000 to 3000 stars at night even with dark night.
Our sun is a green with blue mixed star. And it is the nearest stat to earth.

 

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Sun
Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars and there is estimated to be over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. We can only imagine that we should not even think how to reach there. !
Eta Carinae is considered as the brighter star and temperature measured was 37,000°C (67,000°F).
So with our current latest techlogy how long we went about stars ? Comparison would be like “Drop of water in Sea”.
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