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Galaxies, stars and planets
Galaxies, stars and planets

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Figure 12 Sizes of stars compared. The colours are indicative of temperature; the bluish stars are hotter than the Sun whereas the orange-red stars are cooler. Jupiter, shown in the first panel, has too small a mass to support the nuclear reactions that power the stars.

 5 The Sun and stars