Review: SPCO performs ‘Messiah’ with homegrown soprano Liv Redpath Edina native Redpath, a rising opera star, comes home to solo on Handel’s masterwork oratorio.

A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. [1] The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth …

2 days ago · A star is any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars in the observable universe, …

May 2, 2025 · A star’s gas provides its fuel, and its mass determines how rapidly it runs through its supply, with lower-mass stars burning longer, dimmer, and cooler than very massive stars.

A star is a huge sphere of very hot, glowing gas. Stars produce their own light and energy by a process called nuclear fusion. Fusion happens when lighter elements are forced to become heavier elements. …

These large, swelling stars are known as red giants. But there are different ways a star’s life can end, and its fate depends on how massive the star is.

Oct 22, 2025 · Yellow Dwarf Stars: Our sun is a yellow dwarf star, with a temperature of about 5,500 degrees Celsius. These stars are medium-sized and are in the middle of the temperature range.

Where Do Stars Come From? Every star forms in a huge cloud of gas and dust. Over time, gravity causes the cloud to contract, drawing the gas closer and closer together. As more gas accumulates …

2 days ago · The simplest way to describe a star is that it is a great ball of fire, but it is more complicated than that. A star is a giant ball of hydrogen turning into helium through nuclear fusion.

Explore the mesmerizing world of stars, their life cycle from nebulae to black holes, different types like red giants and white dwarfs.