The Seven Wonders of Exoplanets Ep1 What is the sun

Il sole è una stella, come quelle che brillano in cielo la notte. Le stelle sono fatte di idrogeno, l’elemento più comune nell’universo e sono caldissime, perché al loro interno l’idrogeno viene bruciato. Negli ultimi vent’anni abbiamo scoperto che quasi tutte le stelle hanno pianeti che orbitano intorno, come fa la Terra col il nostro sole. Li chiamiamo esopianeti. The sun is a star, like those that shine in the sky at night. The stars are made of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe and are very hot, because inside them the hydrogen is burned. In the last twenty years we have discovered that almost all stars have planets that orbit around them, as the Earth does with our sun. We call them exoplanets.

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