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Wednesday 29 October 2014

Day/Night Explanation - Tim

Why aren’t stars visible in the daytime?

Not many people know that stars stay in their rightful place in the sky. We can’t see the stars in the daytime because of the glare of sunlight. The blue colour in sunlight is spread across Earth’s atmosphere blocking the vision of the stars. Do you know what a star actually is?

So... What is a star? We see stars on most clear nights as tiny, twinkling points in the sky. A star is a bright ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, held together by it’s own gravity. Hydrogen and helium is the most lightest elements in the universe.


First of all according to current star formation theory, stars are born as groups within gigantic gas in on themselves.  When the gas reaches up to 10 million, hydrogen nuclei begin to fuse with helium nuclei and the star is born.



Most star colour relies on it’s temperature. Hotter stars are blue and cooler stars are red. The most massive and hottest stars exhaust their energy supply within a few million years. Tiny, cool red dwarf stars can keep burning for about up to a billion years

It is very clear that stars are twinkling points in the sky which light up our night, but the vision of the stars are blocked by the blue sunlight in the day time. Stars will always be blocked by the blue sunlight and will enlighten in the night time.

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