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Do stars emit light only during night?


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Light emission by stars

  1. Stars are celestial objects that are a mass of condensed hydrogen and helium gases.
  2. They emit light by releasing the excess energy that is produced by the fusion of its constituent gases.
  3. They are natural nuclear reactors.
  4. This nuclear reaction takes place all the time, thus, the stars are emitting light all the time.
  5. They are the birthplace of heavy metals.
  6. They are tens of hundreds of times larger than our Sun but are far away from us compared to the Sun.
  7. We cannot see the light emitted by other stars during the daytime due to the brightness of the Sun.
  8. It's like how we cannot hear distant sounds because we have a loud sound near us.

Thus, stars do not emit light only at night but all the time.


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