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THELIFEOFSTARS

STARLIFE CYCLE

Stellar Nebula

Red Super Giant

Planetary Nebula

Planetary Nebula

As our own star (the sun) ages it burns brighter, this has certain effects to our planet. The most

pressing one is that our polar ice caps are melting.

GLOBALwARmING

Every star holds the elements that make up the universe.

All the elements that made the earth were found in the dust left

behind by star explosions.We are children of stars

StARCHILDREN

Ever since the Hubble telescope was launched, there have been

thousands of images of space that show us that our universe is even more beautiful than we could have ever imagined. We have learnt so much about our galaxy and just

how vast our universe is.Some of the most popular images are of star dust clouds (nebula’s). This is what we are made of. But

if the Dust holds the elements that created us and we are only one

planet in our entire universe, surely the stars have created some-

thing else..

STARDUST

Ancient Greeks and Romans were famous for their stories

that were told and reflected in star constellations. Their stories were legends of heros and gods

that were sent up amongst the stars for eternity so that their stories would

be remembered for all time. When we look up at the sky, we might only see thousands

of shining lights, but when they looked up, they saw images

portrayed by connecting stars.

ASTROLOGY

A magical dog which was destined never to

surrender a chase. It was bestowed on Europa by Zeus,

who passed it to her son Minos and from him to Procris and

Cephalus.

The last of these set it to hunt down the Teumessian hare (or

fox), which was destined to never be caught. To resolve the

contrary fates of the two animals, Zeus placed them amongst the stars as the

constellations Canis Major (the dog) and Lepus (the hare) or

Canis Minor (the fox) to play out the chase unresolved

for eternity.

A water-serpent was placed amongst the stars by the god

Apollo in the form of the constellation Hydra, to guard the

heavenly bowl Crater, preventing the crow Corvus

from drinking.

Astronomers in 1986 attempted to do something extraordinary,

they pointed the Hubble telescope into a part of the

sky that seemed utterly empty. A patch devoid of any planets, stars or galaxies. The patch of sky was no bigger than a grain

of sand held at arms length. There was a real risk that the

image would return as black as the sky it was pointed at.

But never the less they opened up the telescope for 10 days and the image they received

after those longs days would be one of the most famous of all

hubble photos...

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