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Hi, We are doing a project on stars.......we have been given a list of roughly 25 words related to stars and our teacher has requested that we sort them into three different categories based on the three different sizes of stars....However, no matter how hard we look, we cannot find any information on the "Three Star Size Categories"...Any Ideas? Thanks for the help!
Blake.
Your question is very interesting, as it poses an interesting dilemma. How does one break up the size of stars into three catagories. There is no real answer.
Stars come in all sizes. The Sun for example is about 868,000 miles across. Some stars are hundreds of times bigger than the Sun, and some stars are smaller than the Earth. It would be very difficult even for an Astronomer like me to catagorize stars into three size catagories.
Steve
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Steven LJ Russo
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As a space science educator in a planetarium, my work centers around teaching people about the night sky and the solar system. I have a strong background in those areas, plus the history of NASA and spaceflight, and meteorology.
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Experience in the area. I have been an amateur astronomer for 47 years, and have been teachng space science in planetariums for 34 years. For 15 years I was a radio and television meteorologist, and for the past 20 years I have been a space science writer for two newspapers in New York State. I am a member of the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society and the International Planetarium Society. I have had a number of articles published in several astronomy journals, including "The Constellation" and the "Planetarian". Education/Credentials. I hold a B. S. from Wagner College and an M. S. from State University of New York at Oswego. Awards and Honors. I have been awarded the "Fellows" award from the International Planetarium Society for more than 20 years of continuous service in the planetarium field.
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