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An elderly man stricken with terminal cancer is sitting on his porch pondering life. As the Sun fades away in the distance a tear comes to his eye, because he knows his eternal sun is about to set for its last time. Realizing this could be his last moments the man stays on the porch well into the night. He gazes at the stars above and begins to wonder about how the beautiful twinkling stars above came to be. He decides to phone his son, Tom, an astronomer to come by and star gaze with him. Twenty minutes later Tom arrives and sits in the rocking chair beside his father. Tom gazes to the heavens, when his father asks, "Tom, do the stars burn for ever?" Tom replies to his father, first we are going to discuss the importance of light and other electromagnetic waves. Then we will explore where stars fit in the hierarchy of the universe. Finally we will examine the composition and life cycle of a star, along with how the process recycling materials is related to the structure of the......

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