As stars cool, so the heavier elements are formed.
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Words are as the stars of heaven, fitted to illumine the yet dark places of creation.
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The lecturer who stares out of the window, for example, is unlikely to convey to students much personal interest in their learning.
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The stars can be observed with a refracting telescope or a reflecting telescope, but are the same stars.
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When you get older it is embarrassing because people are staring at you.
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The white men are like the stars over your heads.
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He then stares very intently at the growing flames.
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He then moves on to a discussion of the second cause of the stars' heat.
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If we could observe several different solar systems around other stars, the resulting constants would vary.
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Even so, the implications of this theory for old stars and other massive bodies were not generally realized until the 1960s.
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However, they would differ on details like the distribution of stars and, even more, on what was on the covers of their magazines.
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Ejaculatory trajectories may be seen leading to these stars.
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First, when stars of at least 0.4 solar masses exhaust their supply of hydrogen, their outer layers expand to form a red giant.
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None of which is to claim that stars are alive, a common misinterpretation of such an eclectic stance.
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Biting her lips and staring firmly at the finish line indicate her resilience.
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background star
With high enough temporal resolution even the angular size of thebackgroundstarcan be determined.
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big star
It had no greatbigstarin it, though there was a wonderful cast.
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bright star
This is thebrightstarshining in that darkness.
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