
Eric J. Chaisson
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LOCATION: Medford, MA, United States
Director, Dudley Wright Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. Author of Cosmic Dawn and others.
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Star, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the observable universe, only a very small percentage are visible to the naked eye. Many stars occur in pairs, multiple…
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