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What is a Star?
When you look at the sky at
night,
all of the points
of light which you see (except for a few
planets) are
stars.
Stars
generate their own heat and light by
a process of
nuclear fusion.
The nearest star to Earth is
called the Sun.
Most
of the stars are so very far away that they appear not to
move.
In reality they might be hurtling through space at enormous
speeds. The patterns of "fixed" stars are
called constellations.
The planets of our solar system are
so close to Earth that you can
see them move against the fixed
background of constellations.
If you see Jupiter in
one place in the sky at night,
then the next night you can see
that its position has changed.
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