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Astronomers and astrophysics say we know a lot about stars. We can even make predictions about what stars used to look like and what they'll look like in the future. How is that possible if they live millions of times longer than humans?

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EXTRA INFO LINKS

Black Body Radiation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

Stellar Stages:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzsprung%E2%80%93Russell_diagram
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_sequence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf

Nuclear Fusion:
http://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/Notes/section2/fusion.html
http://burro.cwru.edu/academics/Astr221/StarPhys/coulomb.html
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg

Specific Star Info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_489
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta1_Orionis_C
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/theta1ori.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus

Lightbulbs:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/StephanieLum.shtml
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lighting2.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Construction
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