A number pops onto the screen next to the star. This number represents the brightness counts for the star. Record the brightness counts of the star in this table. The color of stars reveal their temperature. Cooler stars shine with more red light.
Hotter stars shine with more blue light.
In the constellation, Orion, there is a region called the Orion Nebula. A nebula is a fuzzy patch of sky as seen with your eyes or a telescope. The Orion Nebula is a very huge dust and gas cloud in space with lots of stars inside. In fact, in nebulas like Orion, the dust and gas collapses to make new stars. The Orion Nebula has a lot of new, young stars.