My name is Darko and I will be telling you something completely different than rest of the crowd on this CD. Of course there are some similarities - otherwise I wouldn't be telling you this story.
I hope that you have had an opportunity to walk around some places on really dark, clear nights (preferably on some quiet and warm beach in the nice company ;-)) and that you have been impressed when you saw many, many stars. Also if you spent some more time you may noticed Milky Way - our own galaxy which looks like faint cloud spreading over the sky.
Probably you have asked yourself what are those stars, what are their relations to us and if you were more ambitious how to reach them. So I will try to answer some of the questions I think you might have had. I hope that you will use some of information if you have another oportunity in the future.
First of all I would like to tell you that most of the stars you saw are basically the same type of object as our SUN. We see them as brighter or fainter points in the sky because of two reasons - their really huge distances and their different real brightness.
Distances or why we feel impressed?
Is the Sun a star or what are the stars?
Do the other stars show activity like the Sun?
How Sun was born and how it will end its life?
And at the and here are some nice books where you can get more informations about all this.