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Exploring the Night Sky's Wonders

The document discusses objects that can be seen in the night sky away from city lights. It provides a table to classify over 3000 lights as stars of different colors (white/blue, yellow, red), galaxies (spiral, elliptical, spherical), and other astronomical structures like constellations, binary stars, nebulae, and black holes. The purpose is to help the reader become an expert astronomer by understanding what the lights in the night sky represent.

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Exploring the Night Sky's Wonders

The document discusses objects that can be seen in the night sky away from city lights. It provides a table to classify over 3000 lights as stars of different colors (white/blue, yellow, red), galaxies (spiral, elliptical, spherical), and other astronomical structures like constellations, binary stars, nebulae, and black holes. The purpose is to help the reader become an expert astronomer by understanding what the lights in the night sky represent.

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What Can I See In The Night Sky?

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On a clear night, away from the city lights you can see about 3000 white lights in the night sky. Not all these “white lights” are
stars. What are they? To found out what they are you can read the text and do your own research to complete the following Table
to make you the expert Astronomer in your neighbourhood.

Structure Types Definition Examples


Star White/Blue Star with moderate surface temperature and a white or
blue colour.

Yellow Star with a medium surface temperature

Red Giants A dying star in its last stages of evolution.

Neutron A star that has collapsed under gravity to the point that
the elections and protons have smashed together to form
neutrons.

White Dwarf A star about the size of the earth that has collapsed on
itself because of gravity. It begins hot and white and ends
cold and dark.

Constellation A group of starts that form a pattern in the sky.

Binary Stars Star systems that have two stars.

Galaxy A collection of starts, dust, and gas bound together by


gravity.

Nebula Star Forming An interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other
ionized gases. Originally, nebula was a name for any
diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the
Milky Way.
.
Planetary A glowing shell of gas that has been blown off an old
star.

Galaxy Spiral A galaxy whose arms curve outward in a pinwheel


pattern.

Elliptical A galaxy shaped like a round or flattened ball, generally


containing only old starts.

Spherical A galaxy consisting of a rotating flattened disk with a


central bulge made up mostly of old stars, from which
extend two or more spiral arms made up mostly of
younger stars and large amounts of interstellar gas and
dust.
Black Hole An object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not
even light, can escape.

Blue white yellow red

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