Antares - Emmi
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By Jason Runco
Antares is supergiant star 800 times the size of
the sun.
It is fact so large that it would fill our solar
system out past Mars
Antares is 3500 degrees Kelvin Compared to
the suns 5700 degrees Kelvin.( Kelvin is unit
used to measure incredibly hot objects or stars
Kelvin is 272 degrees Celsius)
Even though Antares is much colder it is
brighter because it is much larger
Antares is a red supergiant
The sun is a yellow star
Antares is 600 light years away in the
constellation Scorpio
Antares is in the constellation scorpio
The Scorpio constellations story is an ancient Greek myth. Orion
the hunter was the best hunter in the world and the most
handsome man. He bragged that he would kill every animal
on Earth. Apollo guardian of the cows pleaded with Hera the
queen of the gods to send a scorpion with impenetrable armor
to kill Orion which the scorpion succeeded . When the Greeks
saw the stars and they way they all connected they saw the
scorpion that killed Orion
Antares was born as part of a nebula like all
stars. It will die in a massive super nova
explosion and will have a neutron star or a
black hole left over
Antares is in its supergiant phase of life it will
soon blaze into a supernova
For my work I used Wikipedia.
I also
usedhttp://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/antare
s.html to help me with my work.
By Jason Runco