Star Life Cycles

Our world is made up of millions of things. From an atom to a metropolis, and from a comet to a grocery store, the things that surround our lives not only prove to please functional needs but, aesthetic and intellectual, as well. I could go on to list more random things that surround life but I wont.

It is said that one must know their circumstances and situations. It is human nature to be curious about life around us. To be able to perceive things in logical and rational manner is wonderful, but to be able to grasp and hold onto knowledge that is proven correct trillions of light years away from you is truly beautiful. Enter: the field of science.

Humans have been curious with the functional purposes and features of life since our evolution into humans. Many times early humans would be frustrated with science and walk with their heads down. Thus comes in the saying “keep your chin up.” When they would look up what would they see? The sky, of course. Thus sparking a new curiosity.

After many innovations in the study of the sky it has been concluded that it is very large (quite possibly the most correctly observant thing in science along with of course Galileo’s “Eureka!” in the bath tub, and Ben Franklin realizin

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When it stops shining, the now dead star is called a Black Dwarf. Then a region of condensing matter will begin to heat up and start to glow forming Protostars. Next a star of one solar mass remains in main sequence for about 10 billion years, until all of the hydrogen has fused to form helium. Masses range from a twentieth to over 50 solar masses and surface temperature can range from 3,000 degrees Celsius to over 50,000 degrees Celsius.

Now let’s look and compare this to large stars. During the final stage the remaining core (thats 80% of the original star) is now in its final stages. Massive stars evolve in a similar way to a small stars until it reaches its main sequence stage The stars shine steadily until the hydrogen has fused to form helium (it takes billions of years in a small star, but only millions in a massive star). 5 - 3 solar masses it contracts to become a tiny, very dense Neutron Star.

So, right now you’re probably wondering, “Where is she going with this? Why is she wasting my life?” Well, you’re cleverer than you probably think as you’ve successfully foiled my plans and discovered my next point: life (star life, that is). They vary in size, mass and temperature, diameters ranging from 450x smaller to over 1000x larger than that of the Sun. Then the helium core starts to contract further and reactions begin to occur in a shell around the core. Within solar systems are planets, moons, comets, and the reason you’re reading this…stars!

Stars are hot bodies of glowing gas that start their life in Nebulae.

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