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    The document provides information about star distances and colors. It discusses how star distances are measured in light-years rather than miles due to their immense distances from Earth. Light-years are defined as the distance light travels in one year. Star colors correspond to their surface temperatures, with blue stars being the hottest around 30,000°C and red stars the coolest around 3,500°C. The document also includes a table matching four nearby stars to their distances from Earth in light-years and miles, and a table listing the colors and temperatures of the seven main star types.

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    The document provides information about star distances and colors. It discusses how star distances are measured in light-years rather than miles due to their immense distances from Earth. Light-years are defined as the distance light travels in one year. Star colors correspond to their surface temperatures, with blue stars being the hottest around 30,000°C and red stars the coolest around 3,500°C. The document also includes a table matching four nearby stars to their distances from Earth in light-years and miles, and a table listing the colors and temperatures of the seven main star types.

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    The document provides information about star distances and colors. It discusses how star distances are measured in light-years rather than miles due to their immense distances from Earth. Light-years are defined as the distance light travels in one year. Star colors correspond to their surface temperatures, with blue stars being the hottest around 30,000°C and red stars the coolest around 3,500°C. The document also includes a table matching four nearby stars to their distances from Earth in light-years and miles, and a table listing the colors and temperatures of the seven main star types.

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    The document provides information about star distances and colors. It discusses how star distances are measured in light-years rather than miles due to their immense distances from Earth. Light-years are defined as the distance light travels in one year. Star colors correspond to their surface temperatures, with blue stars being the hottest around 30,000°C and red stars the coolest around 3,500°C. The document also includes a table matching four nearby stars to their distances from Earth in light-years and miles, and a table listing the colors and temperatures of the seven main star types.

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    Star distances Did you know?


    The stars lie so far away from Earth that astronomers It would take you 40,000 years
    cannot measure the distance in miles. They to reach our nearest star, Alpha
    Centauri, in the space shuttle.
    measure distances in light-years. One light-year is However, if you could travel at
    how far light travels in one year—a distance of the speed of light, the journey
    5.9 tillion miles (9.5 tillion km). Light travels would take less than five years.
    at more than 670 million mph (1 billion kph).

    Vast distances Light-years away


    The stars in a constellation like
    Cassiopeia are great distances Draw a line to match each star’s distance from Earth in light-years to its
    apart. However, they look close distance in miles. Start by working out which is the biggest distance in
    together when viewed from Earth. light-years and match it to the biggest distance in miless, and so on.
    Gamma Cassiopeiae:
    615 light-years away Star Distance in light-years Distance

    Alpha 1. Sirius A 8.6 1,829 trillion miles


    Epsilon
    Cassiopeiae: (2,945 trillion km)
    230 light-years
    Cassiopeiae: away away
    440 light- 2. Canopus 310 150 trillion miles
    years away
    (240 trillion km)
    Delta Beta
    Cassiopeiae: Cassiopeiae:
    100 light- 54 light- 3. Arcturus 36.8 51 trillion miles
    years away years away (82 trillion km)

    Cassiopeia 4. Vega 25.3 217 trillion miles


    (350 trillion km)

    Star colors
    The color of a star shows the temperature of its surface. Astronomers divide stars into seven types, depending on their temperature.
    Use the star type table to answer the questions below.
    1. Which type of stars are hottest?
    Type Color Average temperature ......................................................
    O Blue 80,000°F (45,000°C)
    B Bluish-white 55,000°F (30,000°C) 2. Which color are type G stars, like
    our Sun?........................................
    A White 22,000°F (12,000°C)
    F Yellowish-white 14,000°F (8,000°C) 3. What is the average temperature of
    G Yellow 12,000°F (6,500°C) orange stars?..................................
    K Orange 9,000°F (5,000°C)
    M Red 6,500°F (3,500°C) 4. Which four types of stars are
    hotter than our Sun?.....................

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    Activity Answers
    Star distances
    Light-years away
    1 51 trillion miles (82 trillion km)
    2 1,829 trillion miles (2,945 trillion km)
    3 217 trillion miles (350 trillion km)
    4 150 trillion miles (240 trillion km)

    Star colors
    1O
    2 yellow
    3 9,000°F (5,000°C)
    4 O, B, A, F

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