ExploraTour: A Peek into the Lives of the Stars

Tour Guide - Use the button on the top right for a guided tour
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The color of starlight

How big are stars?

What are stars like?

Are there more giant stars than small stars?

How long do stars last?

Burnt out stars

Some burning questions

Colors of the night sky

Heat comes in colors

What is a black body?

Why is the sun called a black body -- it is not black?

The remarkable thing about black bodies

A powerful tool for exploring the stars

What can we learn from sorting stars into groups?

The HR Diagram (a way of sorting stars).

Explore some stars on your own

Where are stars born?

Hubble's view of star birth

Another star-birth cloud

What causes stars to change as they age?

The life of a star like the sun.

The life of a star much heavier than the sun.

There you have it.

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