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#: index.docbook:3
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msgid "<firstname>Jason</firstname> <surname>Harris</surname>"
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#: index.docbook:7
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msgid "Stars: An Introductory FAQ"
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#: index.docbook:13
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msgid "What are the stars?"
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#: index.docbook:16
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"<firstterm>Stars</firstterm> are gigantic, self-gravitating spheres of "
"(mostly) Hydrogen gas. Stars are also thermonuclear engines; nuclear fusion "
"takes place deep in the cores of stars, where the density is extreme and the "
"temperature reaches tens of millions of degrees Celsius."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:28
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msgid "Is the Sun a star?"
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#: index.docbook:31
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"Yes, the Sun is a star. It is the dominant centerpiece of our solar system. "
"Compared to other stars, our Sun is rather ordinary; it appears to be so "
"much bigger and brighter to us because it is millions of times closer than "
"any other star."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:42
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msgid "Why do stars shine?"
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#: index.docbook:45
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"The short answer is: star shine because they are very hot. It is really no "
"more complicated than that. Any object heated to thousands of degrees will "
"radiate light, just like stars do."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:55
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msgid "The obvious next question is: why are stars so hot?"
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#: index.docbook:58
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msgid ""
"This is a tougher question. The usual answer is that stars get their heat "
"from the thermonuclear fusion reactions in their cores. However, this cannot "
"be the ultimate cause for the stars' heat, because a star must be hot in the "
"first place for nuclear fusion to be triggered. Fusion can only sustain the "
"hot temperature; it cannot make a star hot. A more correct answer is that "
"stars are hot because they have collapsed. Stars form from diffuse gaseous "
"nebulae; as the nebulous gas condenses to form a star, the gravitational "
"potential energy of the material is released, first as kinetic energy, and "
"ultimately as heat as the density increases."
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#: index.docbook:75
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msgid "Are stars all the same?"
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#: index.docbook:78
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msgid ""
"Stars have many things in common: they are all collapsed spheres of hot, "
"dense gas (mostly Hydrogen), and nuclear fusion reactions are occurring at "
"or near the centers of every star in the sky."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:82
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msgid ""
"However, stars also show a great diversity in some properties. The brightest "
"stars shine almost 100 million times as brightly as the faintest stars. "
"Stars range in surface temperature from only a few thousand degrees to "
"almost 50,000 degrees Celsius. These differences are largely due to "
"differences in mass: massive stars are both hotter and brighter than "
"lower-mass stars. The temperature and Luminosity also depend on the "
"<emphasis>evolutionary state</emphasis> of the star."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:98
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msgid "What is the Main Sequence?"
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#: index.docbook:101
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msgid ""
"The main sequence is the evolutionary state of a star when it is fusing "
"Hydrogen in its core. This is the first (and longest) stage of a star's life "
"(not including protostar phases). What happens to a star after it runs out "
"of core Hydrogen is addressed in the stellar evolution article (coming soon)."
msgstr ""

#: index.docbook:113
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msgid "How long do stars last?"
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#: index.docbook:116
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msgid ""
"The lifetime of a star depends very much on its mass. More massive stars are "
"hotter and shine much more brightly, causing them to consume their nuclear "
"fuel much more rapidly. The largest stars (roughly 100 times as massive as "
"the Sun), will run out of fuel in only a few million years; while the "
"smallest stars (roughly ten percent the mass of the Sun), with their much "
"more frugal consumption rate, will shine on (albeit dimly) for "
"<emphasis>trillions</emphasis> of years. Note that this is much longer than "
"the Universe has yet been in existence!"
msgstr ""
