A Closer Look at a Few Myths About Stars

How common are myths about stars? Well, there are more than 6,000 true stars visible to the naked eye on a clear night, and it sometimes seems that each has spawned its share of myths.

Why? The reasons are complicated, and mostly boil down to the fact that we've only just begun discovering the truth about stars.

Sure, we know now that stars are basically huge fusion reactors in the sky, big balls of flaming plasma that have lives and lifespans of their own, and that in fact our sun is just an average star.

But that's the fruit of the last century of science, and before then people came up with some pretty interesting ideas about them. Here's the truth about a few:

http://www.mythbusters.com/a-closer-look-at-a-few-myths-about-stars.html