And it does not use hot fusion, the union of hydrogen atoms into larger elements that powers the sun and stars.
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"She'll spend some time in a grass paddock under the sun and the stars, " he said.
The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.
Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.
Twilight, that moment at the end of the day when the sun has just set and the stars are about to rise, it's the inspiration for this week's What's in a Song, our occasional series from the Western Folklife Center about one song and its story.
The internet is chock-full of treatments promising the sun, moon and stars for all sorts of medical problems.
Without it, we might still fancy the Earth situated in the center of the cosmos, with the sun, the moon and all the stars orbiting around us.
"At night the clouds change to stars and the sun to the moon, " Mr. Thorne, chief technology officer of 4moms, explained when I got him on the phone.
To make this work, the sun, moon and the stars would need to align almost perfectly.
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He says the new experiment will do much the same thing using Jupiter instead of the Sun and quasars instead of stars.
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.
Lower energy forms are produced by a number of different sources, such as the Sun, other stars, and exploding stars.
White dwarves are no longer capable of the nuclear fusion that sustains our Sun and most other stars.
They have used similar observations of more distant stars to find "exoplanets" (planets orbiting stars other than the sun) and in a few rare cases, to measure characteristics of the exoplanet atmospheres.
Its "heavy" stars have temperatures 10 times that of the sun and masses up to 100 times greater.
It is a reasonable strategy in this cult-of-personality era, when the focus has shifted from technology to stars like Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon.com.
Planets orbiting stars beyond the sun are labelled merely with the name of the star and a suffix letter.
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Above the underwater space, guests can climb a ladder to the water level, which contains a bathroom and lounge, or ascend to the rooftop to soak up the sun or lay beneath the stars.
The astronomers focused on binaries of red dwarfs, which are stars that are up to 10 times smaller and 1, 000 times dimmer than the sun.
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This is easily enough to detect Jupiter-like planets around distant stars, and it should also be enough to detect smaller, Uranus-like planets around stars within the sun's stellar neighbourhood.
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