Getting To Know The Stars

How do you get to know the stars via Astronomy? No, not Astrology! Astronomy!
Astrology and Astronomy are two very different schools of thought. Astronomy is scientific. It is based on facts and qualified observations while Astrology is your regular horoscope. Well, more like it. You see Astrology is not based on science. It is a tradition or belief that is saying that the relative positions of celestial bodies that would include the stars can provide information as to a person’s personality, attitude, and future.
That basically separates Astronomy from Astrology. Astronomy is the branch of science that is focused on studying celestial objects such as galaxies, comets, stars, comets, and planets. It is also the study of the formation and development of galaxies, planets, and other objects outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Astronomy helps one get to know the stars through its many published and proven scientific studies of the stars and stellar evolution. Studying the stars in Astronomy is quite important to this particular branch of science as stars provide a fundamental understanding of the universe.
Through Astronomy the astrophysics of stars, star formations, star explosions or death, as well as the different positions of stars and how these positions are affecting the composition of the universe are explained and known. It is also this branch of science that has created names for the various star formations currently lighting up our nighttime skies.
Most of us can point one or two star formations that we know the names of. The easiest to spot would have to be the “Small Dipper” and the “Big Dipper”. There is also “Orion’s Belt” if I am not mistaken. These are just some of the many star formations that have been spotted and named through Astronomy that we may get to know the stars up above.
Through Astronomy, we have been able to know how stars are formed and what they are made of. Accordingly, a star formation occurs when giant molecular clouds become unstable, which causes a chain reaction of cloud fragments collapsing. This in turn becomes a protostar. Then when a nuclear fusion occurs, it inevitably creates a main-sequence star. These are the beautiful formations we see at night.
By the way, stars have Hydrogen and Helium in them. Some are actually just made of these elements. Some, on the other hand, were created out of explosions such as a supernova.
These are a few of the things we know of stars courtesy of Astronomy. More wonderful knowledge about stars that we know of today because of the science of Astronomy is out there for the taking. We have books on these, the net for further research, and many more sources. All it needs is for all of us to unravel these stores of knowledge.