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Stars are astronomical bodies that are (usually) mainly composed of Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. They are massive enough that their gravity compresses the matter to the point where nuclear fusion occurs, which creates a lot of heat and tends to make stars output radiation along a blackbody curve. Typically the radiative output is significant in the visible spectrum making stars very bright objects.

Stars are astronomical bodies that are (usually) mainly composed of Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. They are massive enough that their gravity compresses the matter to the point where nuclear fusion occurs, which creates a lot of heat and tends to make stars output radiation along a blackbody curve. Typically the radiative output is significant in the visible spectrum making stars very bright objects.

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Could a Dyson sphere destroy a star?

Freeman Dyson proposed that the power needs of an advanced civilisation would eventually require the entire energy output of a star to be collected, so that the star would end up surrounded by a dense network of satellites extracting power from the…
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Shooting Star Anomaly

Tonight I was walking home from the supermarket and saw an unusual shooting star. It appeared at a point in the sky, bright red and accelerated to a visible extent far faster than any other shooting star I have seen, in an apparent downward…
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Could it be possible for man to create a star?

If it were possible for us to create a star or a new sun, how could it be done, or how would it have to be done?