Ten Facts about stars

1. When you think of star wars, you must remember what else was happening at the time.
2. Star wars let everybody escape from that reality and reach for a future that was uncertain but ultimately good.
3. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
4. Stars are made chiefly of hydrogen and a smaller amount of helium.
5. The brightest stars are classified as 1st magnitude, 2nd-magnitude stars are about 2.5 times less bright, while stars just visible to the naked eye on a clear night are 6th magnitude.
6. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star as viewed from Earth, and the absolute magnitude of a star is its actual brightness as viewed from a set distance away from the star.
7. STAR's "heart" is the Time Projection Chamber, made of many electronic systems, which tracks and identifies particles emerging from heavy ion collisions.
8. The goal of STAR is to obtain a fundamental understanding of the structure of interactions between particles called hadrons, which are made of quarks and gluons.
9. STAR is located at the 6 o'clock position on the RHIC ring.
10. A star with an absolute magnitude of -3 is 100 times as luminous as a star whose absolute magnitude is 2 and 10,000 times as luminous as a star that has an absolute magnitude of 7.