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  • What colors can stars be?
    red, yellow, blue or white
  • What do we see in the sky at night?
    stars
  • Why does the sun seem bigger, brighter and hotter than other stars?
    it is the closest star to Earth
  • Why do stars in the country look brighter than stars seen from a city?
    the city lights make the sky lighter so the stars are harder to see
  • Why does it take a stars light a long time to reach Earth?
    because stars are very far away and light must travel
  • How are stars held together?
    by gravity
  • Why do stars appear to all be about the same size?
    because they are different distances away from Earth
  • If the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth, what does that tell you about how far away the sun is?
    the sun is very far away from Earth
  • How old is the light from the sun when we see it?
    8 minutes old
  • What is plasma?
    the gas that makes up stars
  • What is gravity?
    the force that keeps things down (so we don't float in the air)
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