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The Naturalist Introduction: Properties of a Star (11:40)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Michael Hamburg, how many stars can you see in New York City?, maybe 2,500 on a clear moonless night, life span of stars, classification of stars, stars are not identical, they die different types of deaths, why are stars different?, the more mass a star has the denser it is, hotter nuclear fires, electromagnetic radiation, the hotter you are the shorter you live, HR diagram, the color of the star tells us how hot it is, Orion, blue white stars are the hottest, Rigel, red dwarfs, the universe is less than a trillion years old, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, energy and matter, Albert Einstein,What Happens To Stars When They Die? (11:12)
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what happens to stars when they die, leave a comment!, stars are slaves to physics, the sun will never have a violent end, it will slowly swell turn red and become a red giant, white dwarf, the bigger the star the bigger the fall, blue giant, supernova, creating elements, black holes, galactic black holes, Blazar, bi polar jets, pulsar, rapidly spinning neutron star, Hearst Ranch,Wormholes, Black Holes & Dark Matter (12:12)
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wormhole, wormholes, wormholes are speculation not fact, gravity, Einstein's theory of relativity, do black holes come out somewhere else?, objects bend space, stars, galaxies, Milky Way, everything you can see in the night sky is in our galaxy, you might be able to see the Andromeda galaxy, our galaxy is sweeping up all the things orbiting it, most of our universe is unknown, the universe is likely bigger than we think, observable universe, dark matter, all mass has gravity, we can't see dark matter, planets glow like stars, Mars, Saturn, www.skyandtelescope.com, www.space.com,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
The Naturalist Introduction: A Star Is Born (12:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Michael Hamburg, what is a star?, large sphere of gas, the sun is a star, the sun is halfway through its life span, 5 billion years remaining, the sun is responsible for human life, the source of all energy, the Earth used to be thought of as the center of the universe, electro magnetic spectrum, x rays, radio waves, micro waves, wavelengths, a wavelength is the measurement between the tops or bottoms of the waves, the shorter the wavelength the more energetic the light is, the speed of light is constant for every photon, how do stars form?, hydrogen, gravity, angular momentum, proto star, hydrogen atoms, thermo nuclear fusion, a star is born, Hearst Ranch,The Sun & How It Affects Us (11:16)
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Apollo, Helios, Helium was discovered on the sun, nebula, Pierre-Simon Laplace, the sun is approximately 865,000 miles in diameter, more than a million earths would fit inside the sun, the sun is a small to average star, the largest star is 3,000 times the size of the sun, Ultra Violet Rays, UV Rays, sun screen, sunburn, can lead to skin cancer, melanin, radio waves, protons, magnetic field, harmful rays, bacteria, converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, photosynthesis, the sun's mass,The Future of the Sun & Life After Death (8:47)
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spectroscopy, astrophysics, Erica Wides, Why We Cook, live on Tuesdays at 6:30pm, what is the sun made out of?, the atoms don't change after you die, there are billions of stars, some are very far away, we are going to have a collision with the Andromeda galaxy, the sun is not from the first generation of stars, it was built on recycled material from an older generation of stars, the universe is an incredible recycling machine, we are made up of the same elements as stars, our atoms are eternal, reincarnation,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
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