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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF ALL STARS HAVE THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS?? WHY?

2007-01-22 10:38:30 · 3 answers · asked by Eee 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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You wouldn't be here if they did. Literally.

Stars that are much more massive than our sun burn their fuel very quickly, and become supernovae when their fuel runs out. In the last parts of their lives, their great mass allows them to fuse and convert heavy elements from lighter ones -- and when they explode, those heavy elements go out great distances into space. Every heavy element on earth (gold, iron, even carbon of which you're mostly made) came from a star that's already lived and died. You are made of star stuff (to quote Carl Sagan) -- and if all stars were long-lived mild stars like the sun, there wouldn't have been any heavy elements to make you (or the earth) from, and you never would have existed.
Aren't you glad all stars are NOT the same? :)

2007-01-22 11:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Well they do have similar characteristics Basically they all are nuclear furnaces producing in tense radiation . If make sense to thing that the further away a star is the less light reaches us to see it and it would appear too dim.
However if the star is far away and it is very big it would produce more light energy and we will be able to see it better. The near stars dont have to big as big because they are closer .
So if all the star were same size and burned the same way we would only see the closer ones and not the distant ones.

Science believes that most stars have burned out and collapsed into a dark non radiating mass which they call Black hole. If that is the case we are seeing light from (Black holes=stars that have burned out and collapsed).
Some how Im not convinced its true.because light initially would have traveled faster that light we see in our present day.

2007-01-22 19:13:53 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 1 0

Then everyone of the stars would be the same. Because the stars have the same stuff.

2007-01-22 18:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by Professor♫ 2 · 1 0

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