whats the purpose of the stars?

Answer 1

to make the elements, provide gravity, and provide electromagnetic energy to name just a few.

Answer 2

The stars are hot enough to create nuclear reaction. After the Big Bang the most abundant elements were Helium and Hydrogen. These are also the most abundant in the stars. In the process of nuclear reaction, these elements fuse together and create new elements... When these stars explode and give birth to a new star, the new elements are then tranfered to the new star.. In hotter stars even newer elements are formed... So basically, every element in the universe (including the elements that make our bodies) were created in the stars. The planets that revolve around stars are the outer parts of a newly forming star.. If it weren't for the stars we wouldn't be here today.

Answer 3

Should everything have a purpose?

I think as our sun is a star, and our sun has many purposes including holding planets in orbit, proving heat and light for our life form to service, possibly every star has some or more of the purposes as our sun.

Answer 4

They don't have a purpose -- they're simply the natural result of matter and gravity.
Matter as gas exists throughout the universe, and since hydrogen is such a simple atom, it's the most common. Any slight disturbance in a vast cloud of hydrogen will compress some of the gas, raising local density and increasing local gravity. Given enough time, this local density gathers more and more hydrogen to itself, which increases the gravity, which gathers more hydrogen...self-reinforcing. When enough hydrogen has gathered itself into a ball, the pressures and temperatures at the center are high enough to fuse hydrogen into helium, and you have a start.

That's it, a totally natural process and the simple result of what's in our universe. Your question would be like asking what is the purpose of a rock buried deep in the earth...no purpose, just the result of natural processes.

Peace.

Answer 5

The universe just couldn't resist, so to speak.

When the big bang happened, you had a bunch of matter/energy all spread out. Clusters started to form, and once you get Hydrogen in a mass, you'll start to create Helium, and then you've got a star. (something along those lines, anyway)

So, there is no purpose, but now that we're here, and they're there, we certainly depend on one in particular, the sun.

Answer 6

There is no main purpose of Stars thay just exist, it is just by chance that we are able to talk about it because the Sun is just the right distance from us that life can exist. If we didnt exist what would be the point of our galaxy or our universe. when you come up with an answer to this question let me know?

Answer 7

Of course they have a purpose, as revealed in Genesis 1, 15-18.
And, what do you know, that's just what people have been using them for for. In the last few decades, in the Western world at least, we have less need of them for their original purpose since we have lots of modern technology to assist.

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

Answer 8

Well, everything has a purpose and it's hard to find just one. But for the stars, besides the spectacular beauty they bestow on Earth every night, they help keep the universe in place. Their gravitational pull on each other keeps them from just spinning off into space and crashing into other objects. Rather than thinking of them as stars, think of them as nebulae, like the Sun. They give warmth and pull 'planets' into orbit. But the universe is ever-changing. Who knows? Maybe in the next century or so, scientists will figure out a way to harness the stars' powers to humans' advantage. Maybe convert their energy into other forms like electricity or heat or something. Maybe that will be the new way of harnessing electricity. Then, no more pollution from coal and no more extinction of fish from hydro-power plants. Those darn dams have wiped out tens of species of fish, you know...

Answer 9

Stars dont have a purpose. They are chunks of rock and gas and dust that glow depending on how hot they are. The sun is a medium sized star and is medium heat.

Answer 10

The death of stars gives birth to new life.

Answer 11

They are the same as our sun and have their own planetary systems. For all you could know there could be somebody else on another planet saying exactly the same about our own star!