What if you touch a star?

Small, old stars can be at room temperature ex: WISE 1828+2650, so you could touch the surface without getting burned. Any star you can see in the sky with the naked eye, however, would be hot enough to destroy your body instantaneously if you came anywhere near them.
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Can we land on a star?

The calculations show that, even using the most theoretical of technologies, reaching the nearest star in a human lifetime is nearly impossible.
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What happens if you touch neutron star?

Any kind of atom couldn't keep being atom anymore. So when anything tries to touch neutron star, it would be suck in by gravity and collapse into lump of neutrons and feed their mass into that neutron star. And if it collects enough mass it would collapse into a black hole.
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Can you hold a star in space?

The Moon is our closest celestial neighbor at nearly a quarter million miles from Earth, and the nearest star, our Sun, is 93 million miles away. These extreme distances mean that it's usually impossible to touch real objects in space (meteorites that fall to the ground not withstanding).
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Is a cold star possible?

Mission News. › Full image and caption Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. These failed stars, called brown dwarfs, are so cold and faint that they'd be impossible to see with current visible-light telescopes.
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What If a Spoonful of Neutron Star Appeared on Earth?



What is 75 light years away?

A dim brown dwarf found 75 light-years away has a surface no hotter than a freshly brewed cup of coffee, astronomers say. Warning: The news you are about to enjoy is extremely hot—relatively speaking. According to a new study, a star discovered 75 light-years away is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Can you walk on a star?

No. A neutron star has such an intense gravitational field and high temperature that you could not survive a close encounter of any kind.
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Can the sky be touched?

Surprisingly, yes, for some of them. Small, old stars can be at room temperature ex: WISE 1828+2650, so you could touch the surface without getting burned. Any star you can see in the sky with the naked eye, however, would be hot enough to destroy your body instantaneously if you came anywhere near them.
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How hot is a star?

Red stars are cooler than the sun, with surface temperatures of 3,500 K for a bright red star and 2,500 K for a dark red star. The hottest stars are blue, with their surface temperatures falling anywhere between 10,000 K and 50,000 K. Stars are fuelled by the nuclear fusion reactions at their core.
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What are stars made of?

Stars are huge celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light and heat from the churning nuclear forges inside their cores. Aside from our sun, the dots of light we see in the sky are all light-years from Earth.
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How hot is a neutron star?

Neutron stars produce no new heat. However, they are incredibly hot when they form and cool slowly. The neutron stars we can observe average about 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit, compared to about 9,900 degrees Fahrenheit for the Sun.
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Will humans ever reach another star?

The nearest star is four light years away. That means that light, traveling at 300,000 kilometers per second would still need FOUR YEARS to reach the nearest star. The fastest spacecraft ever launched by humans would need tens of thousands of years to make that trip.
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Can we look back in time?

Large telescopes can look so deep into the Universe that they can also look back billions of years in time. From 2018, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be able to see the period just after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies formed.
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Does the moon know you change the voice?

The answer is- Are you known by the moon?
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What does a star looks like?

To the naked eye, the stars look like tiny points of light . But stars are not tiny—they're huge, burning balls of gas, like our Sun. They just appear small because they are so far away. The nearest star to our solar system is 4 light years away, which is 20 trillion miles.
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Why is the sky blue?

The sky is blue due to a phenomenon called Raleigh scattering. This scattering refers to the scattering of electromagnetic radiation (of which light is a form) by particles of a much smaller wavelength.
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Can you buy a Hollywood star?

“You cannot just buy a star. People don't understand that there's a process. They feel like if they have money, it can be bought, and that's not the way it works,” Martinez tells Variety. The yearlong selection process, organized by Martinez, kicks off in April, when applications go live on the Walk of Fame website.
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How far is the closest star to Earth?

Distance Information

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own, is still 40,208,000,000,000 km away. (Or about 268,770 AU.)
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Do we age in space?

In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
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What does space smell like?

Astronaut Thomas Jones said it "carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell…a little like gunpowder, sulfurous." Tony Antonelli, another space-walker, said space "definitely has a smell that's different than anything else." A gentleman named Don Pettit was a bit more verbose on the topic: "Each time, when I ...
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Do bodies decay in space?

Inorganic remains. Normally, the organic component will decompose, and so the skeletons we see in museums are mostly the inorganic remnants. But in very acidic soils, which we may find on other planets, the reverse can happen and the inorganic component can disappear leaving only the soft tissues.
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