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Understanding Stars: Types and Life Cycle

Stars are huge balls of gas that produce heat, light, and radiation through nuclear fusion. They come in a wide range of sizes, from dwarf stars to supergiants over 1000 times larger than our Sun. Stars evolve over billions of years, with smaller stars living longer than larger ones. As stars age, they expand into red giants and eventually shed their outer layers, becoming white dwarfs that slowly fade over trillions of years. The most massive stars may explode as supernovae, leaving behind neutron stars or black holes. Our Sun is a main sequence star that has sustained life on Earth for billions of years through its heat and light.

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Understanding Stars: Types and Life Cycle

Stars are huge balls of gas that produce heat, light, and radiation through nuclear fusion. They come in a wide range of sizes, from dwarf stars to supergiants over 1000 times larger than our Sun. Stars evolve over billions of years, with smaller stars living longer than larger ones. As stars age, they expand into red giants and eventually shed their outer layers, becoming white dwarfs that slowly fade over trillions of years. The most massive stars may explode as supernovae, leaving behind neutron stars or black holes. Our Sun is a main sequence star that has sustained life on Earth for billions of years through its heat and light.

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Wish upon a STAR

Presented by:
Daulo, Eunice R.
III – Block 3
Star
•Is a huge, shinning ball in space that produces heat,
light, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and other forms of
radiation.
•They are composed largely of gas and plasma, a
superheated state of matter composed of subatomic
particles.
•Our universe likely contains more than 100 billion
galaxies, and each of those galaxies may have more
than 100 billion stars.
Yet on a clear, dark night Earth's sky reveals only about
3,000 stars to the naked eye. Humans of many cultures
have charted the heavens by these stars.
Their brightness is a factor of how much
energy they put out, which is called
their luminosity, and also how far away
from Earth they are.

Stars in the heavens may also appear to be


different colors because their
temperatures are not all the same. Hot
stars are white or blue, whereas cooler
stars appear to have orange or red hues.
•Stars in the heavens may also appear to be
different colors because their temperatures are
not all the same. Hot stars are white or blue,
whereas cooler stars appear to have orange or
red hues.
•Stars may occur in many sizes, which are
classified in a range from dwarfs to supergiants.
Supergiants may have radii a thousand times
larger than that of our own sun.
Hydrogen is the primary building block of stars. The
gas circles through space in cosmic dust clouds
called nebulae. In time, gravity causes these clouds to
condense and collapse in on themselves. As they get
smaller, the clouds spin faster because of the
conservation of angular momentum—the same
principle that causes a spinning skater to speed up
when she pulls in her arms.
Building pressures cause rising temperatures inside
such a nascent star, and nuclear fusion begins when a
developing young star's core temperature climbs to
about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million
degrees Celsius).
The stars at night

•Twinkling of stars is caused by movements in


Earth’s atmosphere. Starlight enters the
atmosphere as straight rays.
•Twinkling occurs because air movements
constantly change the path of the light as it
comes through the air.
Star’s Life Cycle
• Young stars at this stage are called protostars. As they
develop they accumulate mass from the clouds around
them and grow into what are known as main sequence
stars. Main sequence stars like our own sun exist in a state
of nuclear fusion during which they will emit energy for
billions of years by converting hydrogen to helium.
• Stars evolve over billions of years. When their main
sequence phase ends they pass through other states of
existence according to their size and other characteristics.
The larger a star's mass, the shorter its lifespan will be.
As stars move toward the end of their lives
much of their hydrogen has been converted to
helium. Helium sinks to the star's core and
raises the star's temperature—causing its outer
shell to expand. These large, swelling stars are
known as red giants.
Red Giant Star
•The red giant phase is actually a
prelude to a star shedding its outer
layers and becoming a small, dense
body called a white dwarf. White
dwarfs cool for billions of years, until
they eventually go dark and produce
no energy. At this point, which
scientists have yet to observe, such
stars become known as black dwarfs.
White Dwarf Star
•A few stars eschew this evolutionary path and
instead go out with a bang—detonating
as supernovae. These violent explosions leave
behind a small core that may become
a neutron star or even, if the remnant is large
enough, a black hole.
Supernovae
Black hole
SUN

It is a star that supplies energy and


light to earth
St

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