Astronomy is not just about the stars. Astronomy is about the constellations, the nine planets, the sun and the moons. The solar system is very complex and has many extraordinary objects.
There are four different types of stars: Protostars, Bright Stars, Red Giants, and White Dwarfs. Protostars are stars that are on the verge of being born. They are glowing clouds of dust and gas. Gravity pulls on every atom moving them towards the center of the cloud of dust, which causes the Protostar to collapse. Over a period of twenty million years the star begins to form and 10 million years after the pocket of gas was formed, a star is born.
The second types of stars are called Bright Stars. They are formed when the new star has completed about 35 million years of its life cycle. A star's life cycle is a lot like a human's life cycle, except a star's years are in millions. When a star is about 10 million years old it is in the same stage on average as a regular human that is......

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