STARS add beauty to the sky and are the building blocks of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. But they are also essential for life on Earth. Many of the atoms in our bodies were forged inside stars, and one star, the Sun, sustains us all. The Sun looks different from other stars simply because it is so much closer. Sunlight is really just very bright starlight, and if our star stopped shining, all life on Earth would perish.
In addition to the Sun, our Galaxy harbours hundreds of billions of other stars. But like snowflakes, no two stars are the…
