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A star is a luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance from Earth. Historically, the most prominent stars were grouped into constellations and asterisms, the brightest of which gained proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. However, most of the stars in the Universe, including all stars outside our galaxy, the Milky Way, are invisible to the naked eye from Earth. Indeed, most are invisible from Earth even through the most powerful telescopes.
For at least a portion of its life, a star shines due to thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in its core, releasing energy that traverses the star's interior and then radiates into outer space. Almost all naturally occurring elements heavier than helium are created by stellar nucleosynthesis during the star's lifetime, and for some stars, by supernova nucleosynthesis when it explodes. Near the end of its life, a star can also contain degenerate matter. Astronomers can determine the mass, age, metallicity (chemical composition), and many other properties of a star by observing its motion through space, its luminosity, and spectrum respectively. The total mass of a star is the main factor that determines its evolution and eventual fate. Other characteristics of a star, including diameter and temperature, change over its life, while the star's environment affects its rotation and movement. A plot of the temperature of many stars against their luminosities, produces a plot known as a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H–R diagram). The plotting of a particular star on that diagram allows the age and evolutionary state of that star to be determined.
A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. When the stellar core is sufficiently dense, hydrogen becomes steadily converted into helium through nuclear fusion, releasing energy in the process. The remainder of the star's interior carries energy away from the core through a combination of radiative and convective heat transfer processes. The star's internal pressure prevents it from collapsing further under its own gravity. When the hydrogen fuel at the core is exhausted, a star of mass 0.4 times greater than the Sun's will expand to become a red giant. In some cases, it will fuse heavier elements at the core or in shells around the core. As the star expands it throws a part of its mass, enriched with those heavier elements, into the interstellar environment, to be recycled later as new stars. Meanwhile, the core becomes a stellar remnant: a white dwarf, a neutron star, or if it is sufficiently massive a black hole.
Binary and multi-star systems consist of two or more stars that are gravitationally bound, and generally move around each other in stable orbits. When two such stars have a relatively close orbit, their gravitational interaction can have a significant impact on their evolution. Stars can form part of a much larger gravitationally bound structure, such as a star cluster or a galaxy.
This is a rare old school 9mm plinking pistol that I am going to regret selling but must do so in order to pay off my credit card. This pistol was manufactured in 1979 and shows some holster wear and has some of the bluing worn off the grip. Besides the finish wear this pistol functions 100%...
What do you think of this tiny 10 yr old Fifth grader, and her amazing shooting abilities competing in 3 gun competitions??
His she getting into competitive shooting too young? Here is a link to her Facebook page:
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Little help if possible I am helping or trying to help my friend fix his wife 's STAR S.A .380 pistol it has broken firing pin I have to remove the rear site to remove firing pin but I can not get the site to move used site tool and hammer and brass punch and different lubricant 's if I heated...
Josh Huff, former star receiver for the Oregon Ducks football team, and 1st round draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2014, has been released from the team for committing gun related crimes.
Huff, whose legal residence is in gun friendly Texas, had an unloaded pistol that is registered in...
Selling my 1962 (from the H1 proof mark, picture included). Doesn't appeared to be reblued (decent wearing in the grip area), but suspect grips are not original and the mag release has a screw jury rigged fix (understandable since parts are hard to come by).
Source: Star Firearms: Dating your...
I have two Star presses complete for sale one set up for 45 acp and one set up for 38 special with an extra set of 45 lc dies and shell plate
$850.00 ea call me at 971-235-0381
David
Star brand - model FireStar M45, Starvel / stainless steel compact - caliber .45 auto ..........Gun of the year for Guns & Ammomagazine back in 1990.....
It's in C+ cosmetic and A function condition....... It has a Val Albert master gunsmith trigger job and now breaks like a glass rod real...
Up for sale is my 1945 Star Model B 9mm pistol! Looks like a 1911, takes down like a 1911, single stack, but in cheap and glorious 9mm Luger!
This one is a little different in that it appears to be a model "A" to "B" conversion - from 9mm Largo to 9mm Luger. Produced in Spain, this one likely...