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Is This the Strangest Star in Space? #shorts #FYP #ScienceFacts #Viral #coldeststar #coldest #NASA #spaceexploration

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00:00Imagine a star so cold, it hardly seems like a star at all.
00:04Deep in the cosmos, astronomers have discovered WISE 0855-0714,
00:11the coldest known star in the universe.
00:14Unlike our sun, this star barely emits heat,
00:17with surface temperatures dipping as low as minus 48 degrees Celsius,
00:21colder than the freezing point of water on Earth.
00:24Classified as a brown dwarf, WISE 08-0714 blurs the line between stars and planets.
00:33It's too massive to be a planet,
00:35yet too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers true stars.
00:40Instead, it glows faintly with leftover heat from its formation.
00:46Observing such objects helps scientists understand the diversity of celestial bodies
00:51and the boundary between stars and planets.
00:54WISE 0855-0714 reminds us that the universe is filled with surprises,
01:02challenging our definitions and expanding the possibilities of what a star can be.

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