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a nuclear furnace so vast it forges the atoms that became you
means A massive luminous ball of plasma held together by gravity, burning bright enough to be seen across light-years — or, by extension, anyone or anything that shines above the rest.
from From Old English 'steorra,' part of a vast family of star-words across the Indo-European world: Latin 'stella,' Greek 'aster' (which gives us 'asteroid' and 'astronomy'), German 'Stern.' All seem to trace back to a reconstructed root '*ster-,' meaning 'star' — one of those ancient words humans carried with them as they spread, looking up at the same scattered lights and naming them in a thousand daughter tongues.
- core temp
- the Sun's core hits 15 million degrees Celsius
- time delay
- some stars you see died millennia ago
- your origin
- calcium in bones was cooked inside dead stars
- crush factor
- a teaspoon of neutron star weighs a billion tons
- slow light
- sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach Earth
sirius — brightest star in earth's night sky, magnitude -1.46, in canis major constellation
polaris — north star used for navigation in northern hemisphere, alpha ursae minoris
proxima centauri — closest star to the sun at 4.24 light-years away, discovered 1915
betelgeuse — red supergiant in orion, 700 times larger than the sun, variable brightness