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Stars are balls of hydrogen and helium gas that are held together by gravity. In their cores, stars sustain nuclear fusion reactions that burn hydrogen into helium, releasing energy that causes them to shine. Stars form in nebulas, large clouds of gas and dust in space that provide the raw materials for stars to come together and take shape.
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How a star is born, lives,
Stars are born from clouds of hydrogen and helium gas that collapse under gravity. When the cloud becomes dense and hot enough, nuclear fusion begins at its core, causing the star to shine. A star's properties like size, temperature, and color depend on how much gas was in the original cloud. The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram classifies stars based on these properties and tracks their evolution over millions or billions of years as they fuse elements until dying in a supernova or becoming a black hole or white dwarf. Our sun is a medium-sized yellow star that has fused hydrogen for 4.6 billion years and will continue for another 5 billion years.
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Star Classification
Stars are large balls of ionized gas held together by gravity that emit energy through nuclear reactions. They are classified based on size, temperature, and brightness. Size categories include super giants, red giants, main sequence, white dwarfs, and neutron stars. Temperature determines color, from red (coolest) to blue (hottest). Brightness depends on both a star's intrinsic luminosity and its distance from Earth. Spectrographs are used to analyze starlight and determine properties like chemical composition, temperature, and distance.
Stars
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E2 - Types of Star & HR Diagram
The document describes different types of stars:
1) Red giants are very large, cool stars that all main sequence stars evolve into. Nuclear fusion occurs in red giants, fusing helium into heavier elements.
2) White dwarfs are very small and dense remnants of red giants. They have high temperatures but low luminosities due to their small size.
3) Neutron stars form from massive stars and are very hot and dense, composed mostly of neutrons. Pulsars are rotating, magnetized neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation.
Types of stars
This document describes different stages and types of stars:
- Main sequence stars like our Sun spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores.
- Red giants are large, reddish stars that have exhausted hydrogen fusion and begun fusing helium.
- Planetary nebulae form when average-sized stars eject their outer layers after becoming red giants, leaving behind dense, hot cores called white dwarfs.
- Brown dwarfs are failed stars too small to sustain nuclear fusion.
- Variable stars change in brightness over timescales from seconds to years as they evolve.
- Binary stars are two gravitationally bound stars that orbit a common center of mass.
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Stars are born from clouds of hydrogen and helium gas that collapse under gravity. When the cloud becomes dense and hot enough, nuclear fusion begins at its core, causing the star to shine. A star's properties like size, temperature, and color depend on how much gas was in the original cloud. The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram classifies stars based on these properties and tracks their evolution over millions or billions of years as they fuse elements until dying in a supernova or becoming a black hole or white dwarf. Our sun is a medium-sized yellow star that has fused hydrogen for 4.6 billion years and will continue for another 5 billion years.
Exploding supergiants
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Stars
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E2 - Types of Star & HR Diagram
The document describes different types of stars:
1) Red giants are very large, cool stars that all main sequence stars evolve into. Nuclear fusion occurs in red giants, fusing helium into heavier elements.
2) White dwarfs are very small and dense remnants of red giants. They have high temperatures but low luminosities due to their small size.
3) Neutron stars form from massive stars and are very hot and dense, composed mostly of neutrons. Pulsars are rotating, magnetized neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation.
Types of stars
This document describes different stages and types of stars:
- Main sequence stars like our Sun spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores.
- Red giants are large, reddish stars that have exhausted hydrogen fusion and begun fusing helium.
- Planetary nebulae form when average-sized stars eject their outer layers after becoming red giants, leaving behind dense, hot cores called white dwarfs.
- Brown dwarfs are failed stars too small to sustain nuclear fusion.
- Variable stars change in brightness over timescales from seconds to years as they evolve.
- Binary stars are two gravitationally bound stars that orbit a common center of mass.
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- 2. Opening StatementOpening Statement I’m doing my presentation on how are stars made because I find them interesting
- 3. What is a star?What is a star? Look up in the night sky and you’ll see lots of stars. But what is a star?In a scientific sense a star is a ball of hydrogen and helium with enough mass that it can sustain nuclear fusion at it’s core.Our sun is a star,of course but they can come in different sizes and colors.
- 4. What are stars made of?What are stars made of? stars are made of hot gas.Stars have hydrogen and helium.Stars shine by burning hydrogen into helium in their cores.Stars are held together by gravity.Stars are made in nebulas.Nebulas are big areas that has more gas than normal space has.