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Definitions in the Field: Stars
Definitions in the Field: Stars
National Geographic Explorer Munazza Alam spends her nights and days studying stars. They might look like tiny dots of light, but each star is a massive ball of burning gas like our own sun. The Milky Way galaxy alone is home to somewhere around 100 billion of them!
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5 - 8
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Earth Science, Astronomy
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October 19, 2023
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