Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Lifecycle of stars

After introduction to what stars are, let us read about their lives.

Are they like humans?



Do they die?






 Or will they become extinct like dinosaurs?




Or do they become skeletons?




 Or are they immortal like zombies?




Lets find out about it !!


I found this picture online and that precisely explains the life of a cycle. So firstly, lets take a look at  this family picture of a real giant star and then we will understand the stages of life of a star 






But there are some stars which have a different life cycle because of their different sizes

And  here it is



Now let us understand certain terms used in the pictures

Protostar

Looks like a star but its core is not hot enough yet for a fusion to take place

Supergiant

Among the most massive and most luminous stars

Supernova

Explosion of a star

Black hole

We will get to it in next post ;)

Stellar Nursery

molecular cloud in the process of forming new statrs

Interstellar

Situated or occuring between the stars

Now, do we have the overview of the lifecycle of the stars of all sizes, big or small?

I think, a little.

So let us enter the life of each star in different posts :) 

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