Stars and Exoplanets

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye,^[1] all within the Milky Way galaxy.

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0:00.0	I can't believe you built us a spaceship.
0:03.4	What can I say?
0:04.4	I've got a guy.
0:05.9	Yeah, I'm so excited.
0:07.9	Ugh.
0:08.9	I don't know.
0:09.9	Oh, come on, Heath.
0:10.9	I know Eli's before-show shenanigans have gone wrong in the past.
0:14.7	Like every time.
0:15.7	But you gotta admit, sending us on a three-year mission to Mars to celebrate Cecil's
0:19.8	essay on exoplanets and stars is pretty cool.
0:22.6	Nothing one best friend wouldn't do for another, am I right?
0:25.4	No, still no.
0:26.4	Really?
0:27.4	I built you a spaceship and the answer's still now.
0:29.5	So, about that.
0:30.5	I mean, don't get me wrong.
0:32.0	I know you have a guy for everything in this weird pre-show universe.
0:35.8	But how did you afford this?
0:38.0	From the ground up, Heath.
0:39.2	From the ground up.
0:40.8	For example, do you know that most spaceships spend millions of dollars just on waste collection
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