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You can't touch a star. The sun is a star and is relatively small compared to other stars we know of. Seeing as stars burn at an extreme temperature it would be impossible to get anywhere near a star, let alone touching one, without being incinerated way before you actually reach the star. Stars are not just cool looking lights in the night sky

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Why cant we use the senses taste smell touch when identifying a star?

I'm sure if you think about it, you'll know why. Of course, you're more than welcome to go taste a star if you can actually touch one without burning up.


Is it possible to reach a star?

"You would burn up before you got close enough to touch a star. Only your ashes would touch it." This is true with the majority of stars, however astronomers recently discovered a star that is only around 80 degrees, which would actually be comfortable to the touch.


The lifetime of a star depends on its?

The life of a star depends on the amount of hydrogen a star has left. Simple answer the larger the star the shorter the life span for example: stars like our Sun can be expected to live 8-12 billion years a more massive star like Beetlegeuse can expect to live 100-400 million years and the most massive stars like S. Doradus and VY Canis Majoris can expect to live just a few million years. The larger the star the more fuel it consumes. Due to contrary belief not all stars burn hydrogen some stars burn helium others burn carbon some even burn oxygen this is all based off the core temperature the hotter the core the more elements it can burn


How does a star burn without oxygen?

The "burning" that takes place in a star is not fire. It is nuclear fusion. In the process hydrogen atoms fuse with one another to form helium, releasing millions of times more energy than can come from any fire.


What does a main sequence star burn as fuel?

Hydrogen, via the proton-proton chain reaction.