Meet Strange Stars / Meet the Stars Part 7 / A Song about Outer Space / Astronomy with The Nirks
Published 2024-07-19
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Hello! It’s “Meet Strange Stars!” (Meet the Stars Part 7) It’s time to meet some really strange stars! Join Vincent as he takes you to meet some of the strangest stars discovered so far. Stars We’ll Meet Include: LS IV–14 116 a fake diamond star, HR 5171 a giant peanut looking contact binary star, RS Canum Venaticorum polka dot binary stars, Methuselah the oldest star, AR Scorpii an exotic binary star, Janus a two-faced star, UV Ceti a flare star, HE 2359-2844 a heavy metal subdwarf star, Nu Scorpii a septuple star, ZTF J1406+1222 A black widow binary, M51-ULS-1 a strange binary star, L 1448 IRS3B a triple protostar and the stars from Orion’s Belt – Alnitak, Mintaka and Alnilam. A fun, informative song about odd stars in our universe. Sparking imagination and wonder in kids of all ages. Enjoy Exploring the Universe with The Nirks!
Thanks to all of our fans that sent in their star votes! You found some truly amazing stars for us to meet! Still haven’t seen your favorite star yet? Have an incredibly interesting and amazing star you’d like to meet? We’re accepting votes for Meet the Stars Part 8! E-mail us your votes: [email protected] Meet the Stars Part 8 will return in 2025 with our 100th star! So stay tuned! Thanks for watching!
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Star Verse Lyrics:
I’m a very unique star because I do extra sparkling
I’m a hot sub-dwarf star LS IV–14 116
Above my blue surface are clouds of zirconium that make me glittery
Between the constellations Capricornus and Aquarius you can find me
I look like a giant peanut! I’m HR 5171
A Contact Binary star, a yellow hypergiant with my cool giant companion
We’re also an eclipsing binary star, my companion orbits me regularly
In the constellation Centaurus is where you will find me
Our name is RS Canum Venaticorum
A close eclipsing binary star in the Canes Vanatici Constellation
We have interactive chromospheres which create large, cool stellar spots
That make our brightness vary, and look like giant polka dots
I’m Methuselah, one of the oldest stars, getting old is a curse
I’m not quite sure of my age, Am I older than the universe?
That doesn’t make sense, but I was around when the universe was forming
Born in a primeval dwarf galaxy, find me in Libra ,still performing
Ar Scorpii, in the Scorpius Constellation, an exotic binary star
A red dwarf star with a rare white dwarf pulsar
Every 2 minutes I’m hit with beams of radiation from my little spinning companion
Causing our entire system to brighten and fade dramatically again and again
In the Cygnus constellation, they call me Janus, the star with two faces
My make up is fairly typical I have hydrogen and helium gases
What’s strange is that my helium gas is on one side and my hydrogen is on the other
An exotic transitioning white dwarf with two halves separate from one another
From the Cetus constellation, I’m UV Ceti and I make people nervous
I’m a flare star, and have sudden and often eruptions from my surface
They flare up fast and calm more slowly and then the process repeats
The first flare star discovered so now they classify flare stars UV Ceti stars after me
A heavy metal subdwarf star, HE 2359-2844
A hot dwarf star with lead filled clouds from the constellation Sculptor
I have ten thousand times more yttrium and zirconium than on your Sun
Stars like me are a link between bright red giants and faint blue subdwarf stars, rock on
In the constellation Scorpius, We’re Nu Scorpii, a rare septuple star system
Seven Stars – you can count us – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
A pair of stars orbited by another star, and all three stars orbited by another
And another pair of stars orbiting another star and this trio orbits all the others
A black widow binary star, ZTF J1406+1222
A pulsar destroying my mate Just like black widow spiders do
My heat evaporates my tidally locked companion as we circle each other every 62 minutes
And, a third star orbits us every 10,000 years observing from its far-away orbit
The odd couple - M51-ULS-1 an ultra-luminous strange binary star
A Blue Supergiant and stellar remnant, probably a black hole, is what we are
We may have the first extragalactic planet detected here in the whirlpool galaxy
The constellation Canes Venatici is where you’ll find our family
In the Perseus constellation L1448 IRS3B
Not a single star, or two, no, we are three
Triplets, 3 newborn stars discovered all together in a rare configuration
Giving astronomers a glimpse of a star forming disk with a triple protostar system
We’re Orion’s Belt, I’m Mintaka, I’m Alnilam and I’m Alnitak
3 of the most popular, easily identifiable stars seen from your planet
We make up Orions’ Belt one of the most distinct constellations in your sky
So many of you asked to meet us, we dropped by to say hi!
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