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Stars are formed from clouds of dust and gas in space that collapse because of gravity. The material that makes stars is called plasma and it behaves very much like a gas. ---- Answer provided ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

... did not generate the same intense heat and pressure that is needed to create stars. Instead they formed planetisimals that continued to collect dust over a period of about 10,000 years ... that water can be found on them as well, if, their atmospheres are cool enough to allow water to form, and thick enough to keep gases like oxygen from sublimating away into ... poles in the bottoms of some deep craters, we are generally unlikely to find water or ice on those planets that form close to a sun because they will be very hot ...

Planets are composed of a very large cloud of dust and gas contracted into a disk. At the center, a ball of gas formed into a star—our Sun. Many small balls ...

Stars that could form black holes are so far from our solar system that the effect on our solar system would be ... dwarf in three to five billion years than about any potential black holes forming nearby For a collapsing star to form a black hole, it has to exceed the Sun's mass by ... if the remnant stellar core exceeds three solar masses And remember that once this star collapses to form a black hole, its effect on the matter around it will be exactly the ...

... to prepare to go to space will depend on whether you are going as a member of the crew or are taking advantage, as I did, of the commercialization of space travel ... home in California and, for about eight months, moved into a two-room flat in Star City, a Russian military base outside of Moscow. There I lived a fairly Spartan existence ...

... thousands of different technologies in space. Many technologies used on Earth are used in space including computers, plastics, machines, high-performance fabrics and materials, chemical processes, ... technologies. The newest technology now being used in space is probably nanotechnology, in the form of fantastic micromachines. ---- Answer provided by Bradley C. Edwards, Ph.D. Image:K2S ...

Astronomers estimate that there are a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy and that there may be a similar number of galaxies in the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

... the Earth We cannot even see the edge of the Universe today as some parts are so far away the light from them has not had time to reach us yet There are many things about the Universe that we still do not understand, and its shape is ...

Some stars are close and some are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The star Proxima Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system, is a ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

... a wide variety of sizes, from the tiny neutron stars that are the size of a small city to the super-giant stars that are nearly as large as our entire solar system. ---- Answer ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

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