Poem: Evening Star – Edgar Allen Poe
Constellation: Aquila
Craft: Marshmallow Constellations
Space Person: Willamina Fleming (Wikipedia, Working Women) Famous for developing new star classification system, discovered many novae, nebulae, and variable stars.
Movie: Stargate
Vocabulary:
- stellar nebula: a cloud of super heated gasses and other elements formed by the explosive death of a massive star
- average star: a star predicted to go through the main sequence of life
- red giant: a star that has low surface temperature and a diameter that is large relative to the sun
- planetary nebula: created when a star blows of it’s outer layers after it has run out of fuel to burn
- white dwarf: the burned out core of collapsed stars that, like dying embers, slowly cool and fade away
- massive star: any star which is larger than 8 solar masses during its regular main sequence lifetime
- red supergiant: an aging giant star that has consumed its core’s supply of hydrogen fuel
- supernova: the explosion of a star. the largest explosion that takes place in space
References:
Space Debris 1957 – 2016, Crashing Satellites, Ted Talk: Let’s Clean Up the Space Junk, Life Cycle of a Star, Stars: Crash Course…
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