Have you ever been interested in w hat is the life of a star? What happens to it, no its not gonna always be black holes! Well im here to tell you ^^!

FYI-Not very good drawing ^^



As you see above, that is the life of a star. Now here's the description!

(Star Formation)
This is the cluster of helium clustering together, also known as "interstellar mass"
Over time it gather's up and gravity causes it to crush together forming a core.

(Main Sequence)
Over time, more and more gas and matter is added to the planet! (wee for the planet )

(Red Giant or Super Giant)
Now your probably wondering what this is, well its a star. Over time its used up alot of matter, but soon gravity is pushing on it, and due to the gravity being a stronger factor, the planet uses up more resources causing it to die quicker, but as a factor, it grows super huge. Like our sun maybe soon.

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Now from here, the dying star has 2 paths depends on the mass + gravity of it.
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Higher Mass path

(Supernova)
Due to all the pressure, and mass that has been left there, it soon implodes causing a huge invert of energy! Soon it has a explosion causing massive desruction around it...
---Path after Super Nova---

Black Hole
If whats left of it has massive gravity, and massive pressure, it causes a implosion of energy and it becomes a singularity (small thing) and forms a hole in spach of which massive gravity pulls in anything nearby.

Neutron Star
If whats left of the star didnt have enough energy, it forms a neutron star which stays in space but will never form anything else.

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Lower Mass


Now if the thing had lower mass, it would follow a lonely path.

(White Dwarf)
A dim star in space which is on its way to death, in space it would be impossible to see cause its so dark but it has only one way to go. It soon follows its path to black dwarf.

(Black Dwarf-AKA DEAD STAR)

This is a star which poses no threat or use. It is just a object in space.



I hope this is interesting. I remembered this all from a while ago ^^

This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Jan 31 2007, 05:00 AM

Something to add onto that. All main phase stars, such as the Sun, are constantly expanding. The problem is that the Sun is expanding and we're close to it. Eventually, the sun will get so big that Earth will get scorched into a crisp. Don't worry,though, this will occur in a few billion years. Yup, we're all gonna die!

It doesnt continuously expand , every star runs off of fuel or helium stored in the core of the thing, making carbon in which is stored till the time of the supernova of which the carbon turns into iron.

But... If it doesnt use that carbon, it becomes a white dwarf then a black dwarf. So no, its impossible for it to keep expanding cause its classified as a MEDIUM STAR, meaning it only lasts a minimum of 10 billion years, and im thinking its about 3/4 done. Cause every hundreds of years the sun becomes redder meaning its dying out.

This is very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing.

Wow the picture,omg the crappest picture in the world no offence but i did not get what you were trying to put on the picture. It didnt mean the slightest to me, i did not get the picture at all but hey you explained it and it sounds cool.

well like i said, i cant draw. jeeze =/

the picture hahahaha, but still its pretty good info, but also i like to mention a post that i did long ago about hypernova stars heres the link to it Click here.

Hopefully we will be a space faring species before the sun engulfs the earth in flames.

I wouldnt want to live in space, i love earth, space is to fked up. no offense, i'd rather live with tree's and animals. Not hard rock and artificial stuff.