what is a star which lie in the sky
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StarChild Question of the Month for August 1999 A falling star or a shooting star has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor.
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- Above: A panoramic view of stars setting on the western horizon, as seen at the Equator in Kenya. On the left stars circle clockwise around the South Celestial Pole, rising on the left (which is east when facing south) and setting on the right (which is west when facing south).
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- : any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky. : a star or planet especially in a certain position that is believed in astrology to influence people's lives. any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky. : a star or planet especially in a certain position that is believed in astrology to influence people's lives.
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- The Pleiades are near Orion. The Pleiades is an open star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology.
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star (stär) 1  A large, spherical celestial body consisting of a mass of gas that is hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion and thus produce radiant energy. 2  Any of the celestial bodies visible to the naked eye at night as fixed, usually twinkling points of light, including binary and multiple star systems.
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star star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior star - any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
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- noun. verb. Star is defined as a bright point of light in the sky or a five-sided drawing that is meant to resemble the points of light in the sky. 1  An example of star is what makes up the Big Dipper constellation.
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The 10 Brightest Stars in the Sky 4. Arcturus. Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation Bootes, which is one of the oldest constellations in the night sky. It is the 4th-brightest star in the entire sky.
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- 1 An asterism is a group of stars which form a pattern in the night sky but is not a constellation in itself.  The beautiful Ring Nebula can be found within the Lyra constellation, between the stars of Sulafet and Sheliak.
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Sky In the field of astronomy, the sky is also called the celestial sphere. This is viewed from Earth's surface as an abstract dome on which the Sun, stars, planets, and Moon appear to be traveling. The celestial sphere is conventionally divided into designated areas called constellations.
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The 10 Brightest Stars in the Sky Rigil Kentaurus. The closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri is marked with a red circle, close to the bright stars Alpha Centauri A and B. Courtesy Skatebiker/Wikimedia Commons. Rigel Kentaurus, also known as Alpha Centauri, is the third brightest star in the night sky. Its name literally means foot of the centaur and comes from the term Rijl al-Qanṭūris in Arabic. It's one of the most famous stars in the sky, and first-time travelers to the Southern Hemisphere are often eager to view it.
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Star Due to their great distance from the Earth, all stars except the Sun appear to the unaided eye as shining points in the night sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to the Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.Other than the Sun, the star with the largest apparent size is R Doradus, with an angular diameter of only 0.057 arcseconds.he color of a star, as determined by the most intense frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the star's outer layers, including its photosphere. Besides visible light, stars also emit forms of electromagnetic radiation that are invisible to the human eye.
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- Science >> Physics >> Astronomy. What is a constellation? A constellation is a group of visible stars that form a pattern when viewed from Earth. The pattern they form may take the shape of an animal, a mythological creature, a man, a woman, or an inanimate object such as a microscope, a compass, or a crown. How many constellations are there?
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Definition of 'star' star. 1  any of the luminous celestial objects seen as points of light in the sky; esp., any self-luminous celestial body having continuous nuclear reactions which send heat, light, etc. in all directions. 2  a conventionalized flat figure having (usually five or six) symmetrical projecting points, regarded as a representation of a star of the sky.
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Sirius The Pleiades are near Orion. The Pleiades is an open star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology. The Pleiades is a white star cluster that is roughly 500 light years from Earth. It is known as M45.
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- WHAT DO WE SEE IN THE SKY FROM EARTH. During daylight we only see our Sun and sometimes the moon.At night we see all the shining objects mentioned above against the dark sky. HOW DO WE FIND STARS IN THE SKY. Some of the brighter stars appear to form groups in the sky, these we call constellations. Most constellations were named a very long time ago by the Greeks or Arabs. People thought they could see the shapes of animals or their gods and named the constellations after them.
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- Sometimes people look into the night sky and expect that a planet shown to be in the zodiac sign of say Cancer will be sitting over the star constellation Cancer. This is not always true since zodiac signs and constellations do not match up one to one.
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Does the North Star ever move? The North Star, also known as Polaris, is known to stay fixed in our sky. It marks the location of the sky’s north pole, the point around which the whole sky turns. That’s why you can always use Polaris to find the direction north.
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Zodiac Constellations Zodiac Constellations. Zodiac constellations are constellations that lie along the plane of the ecliptic, which is defined by the circular path of the Sun across the sky, as seen from Earth. In other words, the Sun appears to “pass“ through these constellations over the course of a year.
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The 10 Brightest Stars in the Sky Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name comes from the Greek word for scorching. It's actually a double star system, with a very bright primary and a dimmer secondary star. Distance: 8.6 light-years.
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Venus and Sirius â 2 Bright Stars in the Evening Sky The two stars in question are Venus and Sirius. By far the brightest “star” in the sky during the evening hours is Venus. Though to the eye it looks like a star, Venus is actually the 2nd planet from the Sun. For the next few weeks Venus is at its brightest and highest in the sky.
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star verb. Star is defined as a bright point of light in the sky or a five-sided drawing that is meant to resemble the points of light in the sky. 1  An example of star is what makes up the Big Dipper constellation.
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The 10 Brightest Stars in the Sky 10. Betelgeuse is the tenth brightest star in the sky. It is a red supergiant about 13,000 times brighter than our sun and over 1000 times larger. If you placed Betelgeuse in the place of our sun, it would extend past the orbit of Jupiter.
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- The North Star or Pole Star – aka Polaris – is famous for holding nearly still in our sky while the entire northern sky moves around it. That’s because it’s located nearly at the north celestial pole, the point around which the entire northern sky turns.
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Night sky The Moon is the most often viewed major object in the night sky, while sometimes visible during daytime. The term night sky refers to the sky as seen at night. The term is usually associated with astronomy, with reference to views of celestial bodies such as stars, the Moon, and planets that become visible on a clear night after the Sun has set. Natural light sources in a night sky include moonlight, starlight, and airglow, depending on location and timing.
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- Zodiac constellations are constellations that lie along the plane of the ecliptic, which is defined by the circular path of the Sun across the sky, as seen from Earth.