How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

Thank you to Target for supporting PBS. You can learn more at https://target.com/community Share your story today: https://to.pbs.org/3izZeXh PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Pin-pricks in the celestial sphere, through which shines the light of heaven? Or gods and heroes looking down from their constellations? Or lights kindled above middle earth by Varda Elbereth and brightened with the dew of the trees of Valinor? Science has long pondered the mysteries of the stars. This is how we finally figured...