the life cycle of stars. cycle for all stars stage one- born in vast, dense clouds of gas, mostly...
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Stage Two - As a nebula collapses, gravity pulls the hydrogen gas in the nebula together and begins to spin; as the gas spins faster, it heats up and is known as a Protostar.TRANSCRIPT
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The Life Cycle of Stars
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Cycle for all stars
• Stage One- Born in vast, dense clouds of gas, mostly hydrogen along with small amounts of helium, and dust called Nebulae.
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• Stage Two - As a nebula collapses, gravity pulls the hydrogen gas in the nebula together and begins to spin; as the gas spins faster, it heats up and is known as a Protostar.
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• Stage Three - Once formed and the temperature reaches 15,000,000 degrees Celsius, a star turn hydrogen into helium within its Core by Nuclear Fusion.
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• Stage Four - The cloud begins to glow brightly, and at this temperature it contracts and becomes stable as a Main Sequence Star. Our Sun is in this stage right now.
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• Stage Five - As the Main Sequence Star glows, hydrogen in the core is converted into helium by Nuclear Fusion.
http://www.waowen.screaming.net/revision/universe/msstar.htm.
• Stage Six -When the hydrogen supply in the core begins to run out, the core becomes unstable and contracts; the outer shell of the star which is still mostly hydrogen, starts to expand. As it expands, it cools and glows red; it has now reached the Red Giant Phase. http://www.waowen.screaming.net/revision/universe/redgiant.htm
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Mass of Star Determines Fate
• All stars evolve the same way up to the Red Giant Phase. The amount of mass a star has determines which of the following life cycle paths it will take after the Red Giant Phase.
• Small Stars• Massive Stars
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Fate of Small Stars• Stage Seven- Helium atoms in the core fuse
to form carbon atoms; the hydrogen gas in the outer shell is blown away to form a ring around the core called a Planetary Nebula
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• Stage Eight- Gravity causes the last of the star’s matter to collapse inward and compact into an extremely dense White Dwarf core that glows with a white hot light.
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• Stage Nine- Once all of a white dwarf’s energy is gone, it no longer emits light, reaching the Black Dwarf phase in which it will forever remain. A completely dead star that is dark and cold.
• This is the end of a small star’s life.
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Fate of a Massive Star
• Stage Seven - In the next million years, a series of nuclear reactions occur forming a carbon atoms from the fusion of helium atoms; gravity continues to pull carbon atoms together as the temperature increases forming oxygen, nitrogen, and eventually iron. GETTING HEAVY!
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• Stage Eight - Fusion stops and the iron atoms start to absorb energy; this energy is eventually release in a powerful explosion called a Supernova; a supernova can light up the sky for weeks.
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• Stage Nine - The core of a massive star that is 1.5 to 4 times as massive as our Sun ends up as a Neutron Star after the supernova;neutron stars spin rapidly giving off radio waves emitted in pulses, these neutron stars are called Pulsars.
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• Stage Ten - The core of a massive star that has 8 or more times the mass of our Sun remains massive; no nuclear fusion takes place to support the core, so it is swallowed by its own gravity becoming a Black Hole.
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