Question

scientific name of twinkle twinkle little star is​

Answer 1

Answer:

No scientific name ಠ_ಠ

Answer 2

Explanation:

Singing to our kids: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star…how I wonder what you..

HEY, what a second, we’re astronomers! None if this “how I wonder” stuff about facts established 100 years ago for OUR little prodigy.

Inspired by a Girl Scout poster we saw in Oakland with insipid, inaccurate doggerel, Julia Kregenow and I wanted a better version. Here is Julia’s updated version (with some contributions from me). We had these mostly done back in 2012 (long before that Weinersmith guy put his out…) with some updates in July 2015.

Scientifically Accurate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

I know exactly what you are

Opaque ball of hot dense gas

Million times our planet’s mass

Looking small because you’re far

I know exactly what you are

Atmospheric turbulence

Causes rays of light to bend

Blurry light gives views subpar

Causing twinkling little star

We see you as if in the past

Light’s not infinitely fast

Lookback time delays our view

I know exactly what you do

Fusing atoms in your core

[1]Hydrogen, helium, carbon and more

With such power you shine far

Twinkle twinkle little star

Classed by their spectroscopy

Types named O, B, A, F, G…

Bright when close and faint when far

I know exactly what you are

Smallest ones burn cool and slow

Still too hot to visit, though

Red stars dominate by far

Twinkle twinkle little star

Largest ones are hot and blue

Supernova when they’re through

Then black hole or neutron star

I know exactly what you are

Gravity holds on too tight

Nothing gets out, mass or light

Black holes are the most bizarre

Remnants of a twinkling star

Neutron stars spin really fast

When their beams of light sweep past

Then we call you a pulsar[2]

I know exactly what you are

Our Sun’s average as stars go

Formed 5 billion years ago

Halfway through its life so far

Twinkle mid-size yellow star

Sunspots look dark but they’re bright

Slightly cooler so less light

Temporary surface scar

I know exactly what you are

Swelling up before it’s dead

Cooling off and growing red

Then its end is not so far

Twinkle big red giant star

Outer layers float away

Planetary nebulae

Wispy gas is gossamer

I know exactly what you were

White dwarf is the core you get

matter is degenerate[3]

When small stars say au revoir

Twinkle very little star

Interstellar medium

Recycled ad nauseam

Gas and dust are spread afar

I know exactly what you are

Forming from collapsing clouds

Cold and dusty gas enshrouds

Spinning, heating protostar

Twinkle twinkle little star

Often forming multiply[4]

Clusters bound by gravity

Open type or globular[5]

I know exactly how you purr

Two stars make a binary

Or a triple if there’s three

Some are solo just like ours

Twinkle twinkle little stars

Two hundred billion stars all stay

Bound up in the Milky Way

Dusty spiral with a bar

I know exactly what you are

Stars have planets orbiting

Rocky or gassy, moons or rings

Earth’s unique with life so far

Twinkle twinkle little star

Lyrics copyright Julia Kregenow and Jason Wright, 2011, 2012, 2015. If you reproduce these lyrics in whole or in part, please include the copyright and credit the authors.

[1] Pronounce these as quick triplets for proper scansion, i.e. “HYdrogen, HElium, CARbon-and, MORE”

[2] emphasize the last syllable: “puhl-SAR”

[3] this actually does rhyme with “get”: de-JEN-ur-ET

[4] pronounced “MUHL – teh – PLEE”

[5] pronounced “GLAH-byoo-luhr”