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Super Stars

Super Stars book cover
O star B star Astar oh boy another F star flying G star giraffe K star kicked m star me Red Giant Astronomers classify stars according to their temperature and size The hottest stars are the biggest and glow bright blue The coolest and smallest stars glow a dim red In between they glow white yellow and orange An easy way to remember their order is by using the saying above The stars you see above are called main sequence stars This is their normal appearance throughout most of their lifetime In the last stages of their life except for the tiny m stars all these stars suell up into red giants 0 8 and A stars eventually emplode as supernovae while F G and K stars shrink down from red giants to white dwarfs slowly cooling over time until they eventually grow cold and die White Dwarf