By Sim & Summer
=3200c =10000c =4900c =30000c or a bit more! =6000c
Sirius B : 0.08 the size of the sun! Alpha Centauri: 1.2 the size of the sun! Vega: 2 the size of the sun! Capella: 13 the size of the sun! Aldebaran: 46 the size of the sun! Betelgeuse:230 the size of the sun!
When a massive star dies, it does so in a spectacular explosion known as a supernova Supernovas are very rare.Of the roughly 200 stars in our galaxy, only one explodes per century on avarage!
AA high mass star is a star which is anything over 8 times the mass of the sun!
There are giant stars in space that can be 100 times larger than the sun, there are dwarf stars that can be 100 times smaller than the sun!
The smaller stars live longer, it lives for billions of years, big stars die out in a few million years !
There are giant stars in space that can be 100 times larger than the sun, there are dwarf stars that can be 100 times smaller !
Light travels at an amazing 300,000 kilometers per second !
The biggest star known is the hypergiant Cygnus, witch is 810,000 times as bright as the sun !