Stars* Hannah Grant

Answers to Proofreading and Editing- Assignment— Stars

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1. 1 As they are born As stars are born
2. 3 are powerful, unique, and are at a are powerful, unique, and far-away.
great distance.
3. 4 thousand stars, but that’s thousand stars; but, that’s
4. 6-7 . “There are more stars in the . There are more stars in the universe
universe than there are grains of than there are grains of sand on the
sand on the Earth.” Earth.
5. 7 the Basic Matter for the basic matter for
6. 9 really close our sun. really close to our sun.
7. 11 million miles away, million miles away from Earth,
8. 13 miles in diameter our miles in diameter, our
9. 13 seems enormous, however; our seems enormous; however, our
10. 14 For example Eta Carinae For example, Eta Carinae
11. 16 . Last, is the largest . Last is the largest
12. 17 ever discovered VY ever discovered: VY
13. 18 : red, yellow, and the colour blue. : red, yellow, and blue.
14. 20 launched the Spitzer space launched the Spitzer Space Telescope,
telescope,
15. 23 able to see finally the able to finally see the
24 is hydrogen, gravity, and a great deal is hydrogen, gravity, and time.
of time.
28 of gas bursts out from of gas burst out from
30 forming star becomes more forming star became more
compressed compressed
31 forming star can reach 15 Forming star reached 15
32 At such high temperatures only can At such high temperatures, only
atoms of gas atoms of gas can
33 Energy energy

*Stars” in How the Universe Works (2010) on the Discovery Channel, Discovery Science. Episode: 1 Original Air Date: 10-05-10;
Record Date: 10-01-16