GARFIELD ROSE IS ROSE FRANK & ERNEST MUTTS THE GRIZZWELLS RHYMES WITH ORANGE BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE REX MORGAN MODERATELY CONFUSED REALITY CHECK THE BORN LOSER This edition of Shortcuts is This sponsored by Stariana Grande. ain sequence stars are stars cartoon isn’t that are fueled by the fusion of such a big I shine hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. deal. brighter than most About 90 percent of the stars in the other stars. universe, including our sun, are main sequence stars. Larger stars, with masses that are more than 10 times the mass of our sun, require more fuel, and quickly run out of hydrogen in their cores. This causes them to enter a phase in their life where they expand greatly to form some of the largest Supergiants stars in our universe — “supergiants.” are giant stars that are nearing the end of their life. They live for only 10 to 100 million years, which Betelgeuse is a red supergiant located in is an extremely short amount the constellation Orion. It is expected to of time compared to smaller go supernova sometime within the next Can you find the hidden words? Search carefully because some stars, which may live 1,000 years. If you were to replace our words are backward or diagonal. for tens of billions sun with Betelgeuse, it would engulf all SUPERNOVA BLACK HOLE of years. the inner planets, and its surface would At the SEQUENCE LARGE BLUE end of their be somewhere around the NEUTRON WARP BOB orbit of Jupiter. What life, most supergiant do you get EXPLODE GIANT SIZE stars will explode as a when you cross MASSIVE MAIN LIFE supernova, resulting a supergiant with PLANET S TAR RED Albert Einstein? M O L E U N D E R D I R T in a neutron star Blue supergiant stars are the A bright P U L L I N E D B A E V A or a black idea. hottest stars in the universe. C O L A E A T O L D T V S hole. Most blue supergiants are not H O M E C H B L A H O S M as large as red supergiants. A N T E N A L P A N T L A B O N E E D U X R R O I S The immense gravitational Before they L P A Z U B E E P W G F S forces inside a blue expanded to A R I A Q U P L A C E E I supergiant star cause become supergiants, C S G N E U T R O N O W V its surface to warp, most supergiant K E E P S U P P O R T O E which in turn causes stars were similar The largest of the the star to shimmer. in size to our sun. Supergiant stars may supergiant stars are sometimes shine as much as one called “hypergiants.” million times brighter than our sun. missing. 5. Tassel is shorter. 6. Eyebrows are missing. 6. Eyebrows is shorter. Tassel missing. 5. is Tassel 4. is smaller. 3. Nose smaller. 2. Hat is is different. 1. Mouth ANSWERS: GAME Supergiants, such as Can you spot all six differences between these two scenes? WOH G64, VV Cephei, V354 Cephei, KW Sagittarii, KY Cygni, Westerlund 1-26, Most VY Canis Majoris and UY Scuti are some supergiant of the largest known stars in terms stars are between of physical size. 50 and 800 times the size of our sun, but some may When do be as much as supergiant stars wake up? 1,500 times Bright and early. What do you Did you larger. get when you cross a super- hear the story about giant with an architect? the supergiant star? Frank Lloyd Bright. It was heavy. For more information: "Space (DK Revealed)" by Alex Barnett (DK Children) or https://nineplanets.org/supergiant-stars/ Find your favorite past issues at: www.shortcutscomic.com Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS, Inc. © Jeff Harris 2020 10/5.