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Most, but not all, scientists agree with Stephen Hawking and others who say that the entire universe (or more than one) blasted out of a tiny "thing" in a process nicknamed the Big Bang. The Big Bang flung huge amounts of matter out and away from itself in gigantic clouds of something like dust.
The cloud of dust began swirling for various reasons in all directions, and eventually some of the swirling dust came together at the center of its own particular swirl. As the dust particles came closer and closer within the swirl, they started attracting each other by the force of gravity more than they had before.
Getting closer increased the force of gravity even more. Pretty soon . . . millions of years . . . the particles of dust attracted each other so hard that they 'fell' together with a common center.
Those tight swirls of dust that had a big enough mass created intense heat (due to the force of gravity) that a nuclear reaction started, and the swirl became a star, just like our Sun, and emitted a monstrous amount of radiation - some in the form of heat, some in the form of light, some in the form of cosmic rays and gamma rays, and so on.
Smaller swirls nearby eventually turned into planets . . . if these new 'proto' planets were in the right place, they would orbit the new star and become a star system. We call our star system by the name of its star, "Sol". (sawl) So our star system is called the Solar (Sol-ar) (SOLE-uhr) System.
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How many stars are double or triple stars?
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How many stars are there on the current US flag?
fifty.
