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Can We Make A Star?
By:Mike Alcazar
Outline
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What Is A Star?
Our Star
Did You Know?
Why Would We Need To Make A Star?
What Do We Need To Make A Star?
What Is A Star?
• They are made of cosmic dust, mostly
hydrogen and helium
• They are very unstable
• The are very violent
• They give off an extremely large amount of
energy
Our Star
• The Sun is what makes life possible on
Earth
• The Sun is powered by nuclear fusion in the
core
• The Sun is the closest star to the Earth
• If it was any closer or farther we would not
be alive
Did You Know?
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The Sun’s diameter is 1,390,000 km
The temperature is 5800 k on the surface
The temperature is 15,600,000 k in the core
It is 70% hydrogen and 28% helium
Eventually the Sun will become a white
dwarf
Why Would We Need To Make A
Star?
• We might need to make a star so that in the
future life may continue to progress on
Earth
• Just in case our Sun immediately burns out
• And just so we could be cool like Star Wars
What Do We Need To Make A
Star?
• Fist we need to get a hold of a lot of helium
and hydrogen
• Then we need to get the mass of gas to
move so that the gasses will react with each
other
• Then we just sit way back and wait until the
gasses explode into a fireball
Who Would Make It?
• Scientists in many different parts of the
world are trying to learn everything they
can about stars
• They may build a team of scientists who
have been studying stars for their entire
career
• This would take years of training even for
them
Summary
• I think that in the future, near or far, we will
need to know how to make a star. This
could keep the human race and everything
else on Earth alive.
References
• Google.com/images
• www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.sh
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• www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/Stars.htm
• McDougall,(1993), Spacescapes, New York,
London, Tokyo, Sydney
• Scholz, P. A. (2001),The Wonder That Is
Space, Indiana, Massachusetts