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| 1. The largest known star – Westerlund 1-26 – is 2000 times bigger than the Sun.
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6. All stars begin from clouds of cold molecular hydrogen that gravitationally collapse.
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| 2. Most stars are red dwarfs.
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7. The biggest stars would engulf Saturn.
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| 3. The most massive stars are the shortest lived.
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8. It might look like all the stars are out there, all by themselves, but many come in pairs.
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| 4. When you look at any star, you are actually looking how it looked thousands of years ago.
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9. The stars do not twinkle. In fact it is the turbulence in the sky that makes the stars appear that they are blinking.
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| 5. When you look at any star, you are actually looking how it looked thousands of years ago.
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10. The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is located about 4.2 light-years away from the Earth.
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