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Hi, we're Mordecai-Mark Mac Low and Rebecca Oppenheimer . We are astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. Did you know that stars are really important to us? In fact, they make all life possible. Let's find out why!
Image Credits:
Big Dipper, Noel Carboni/NASA; stars, CC by 4.0. ESA/Hubble; sun through tree- leaves, Public Domain; Sun hot gas, NASA; Pleiades, NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech; All other images, AMNH.