The Life Cycle of a Star
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The Timeline
A star is like a person, you have all the stages. Starting with the fetus(Protostar), and ending with the old man(White dwarf).
Interstellar medium
The stage before a star. Made of gas, dust, magnetic fields, and charged particles. Its actually just space.
The Protostar
The protostar is the star's version of the fetus. The protostar is trying to reach equilibrium, and become a star. If a protostar fails, it becomes a brown dwarf, and will never be a beautiful star.
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A protostar
A star
Does this look familiar?
Brown dwarf star
Not sure if photoshopped. But it failed.
The main sequence
The star
The star has now achieved equilibrium. It now is fusing 2 hydrogen atoms into helium. Is going under nuclear fusion. At the end of Main sequence the star has running out of hydrogen.
Red Giant
The Red Giant is the phase in which there is no more hydrogen and helium is fusing into carbon. It is getting larger.
White dwarf
This is the final stage of the star, and carbon fuses into oxygen.
Supernova
A massive explosion when the star dies.