Fig. 72. §5 Space
Star
A star is a huge ball of hot gas that shines because, deep in its core, it squeezes hydrogen into helium and gives off energy.
1Facts
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
2How to play
Tap to run the star's life, sped up. Pick the kind of star in the Splash tab.
3Its controls
Table I. Every control on this Splash.
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live and die | Tap | ||
| Life | Button | ||
| Type | List | 4 choices | Yellow, like the Sun |
4About it
A star is a huge ball of hot gas that shines because, deep in its core, it squeezes hydrogen into helium and gives off energy. Its color shows how hot it is: red stars are the coolest and blue stars the hottest. The Sun is a yellow star, about halfway through its life.
Tap it to run the life of a star like the Sun, sped up. It swells into a red giant, puffs off its outer layers as a glowing shell and shrinks to a tiny white dwarf; then a new star lights up. A real star like the Sun takes about 10 billion years to do this. Pick the kind of star in the Splash tab; a tap always plays the Sun's story.
5Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 610,000 at Max
6Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
