Stars

Stars are born in

There are 9,096 stars visible to
batches in their
the naked human eye in the
stellar nurseries.
entire sky. To see more stars you
Over time, they
have to use a telescope to reveal
travel through the
stars fainter than your eyes can
Milky Way, far
see.
from their origin.

A shooting star is
not a star. It’s rock The sun is our Every star you see
or dust, moving so closest star to above you is
fast that it heats up Earth and is 4.5 bigger and
when it reaches the billion years old, brighter than our
and expected to sun. The sun just
Earth’s
last up to 10 appears to be the
atmosphere.
billion yrs when it brightest star
Astronomers call because it's
runs out of
shooting stars, closest to us.
hydrogen fuel.
meteors.