
Stars & Elements
Hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, stars emerged. Learn how these stars formed and how their lives—and death—provided the chemical diversity necessary for more complex things.
Student Resources
Unit 3 Driving Question
How can looking at the same information from different perspectives pave the way for progress?
3.0 How Were Stars Formed?




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3.1 Creation of Complex Elements




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3.2 Ways of Knowing – Stars and Elements




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3.3 Science – Sorting Stars


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3.4 Science – How Old Is the Sun?



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