The closest star to Earth is not Proxima Centauri but the Sun. Any star that has planets is called a sun, and all suns are stars, but not all stars are suns.

Our Sun is actually white and is classified as a G-type dwarf star.

A nebula is the name for regions where stars are forming within large clouds of cosmic dust and gas.

Typically, blue stars are the hottest kind of stars, while red ones are the coolest.

Some stars in the universe can easily reach up to 1,500 times the size of our Sun.

There are more stars in the Milky Way galaxy than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches.

Stars don’t twinkle; it’s the Earth’s atmosphere that causes the illusion.

When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova and may eventually form a black hole.

The Sun makes up over 99% of the entire mass of our solar system.

A teaspoon of material from a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.

Stars create all the elements except hydrogen and helium, meaning you are literally made of star stuff.

Since light travels only as fast as the speed of light allows, some of the stars you see in the night sky are already dead.

Every star visible to the naked eye in the night sky belongs to the Milky Way galaxy.

Stars don’t technically burn; they fuse hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.

Brown dwarfs are considered failed stars because they don’t have enough nuclear fusion to shine brightly.

It is possible for stars to consume other stars, becoming cosmic cannibals in a sense.

If there were aliens watching us from the Andromeda Galaxy, they would see the Sun and Earth as they were when the dinosaurs still roamed the planet.