Stars in a cloud nebula
Unit 3

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.

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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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