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HOW DOES A STAR FORM?

Red Giant
Stellar Nebula New star As the star goes into the later
stages of its lifecycle, it turns into
Stars can be stable for a long time on a red giant as its hydrogen core is
Every star comes from a stellar nebula, the main sequence. How long they completely converted into helium.
which is a cloud of hydrogen gas in remain stable depends on their A red giant is much larger, and the
space. The nebula eventually collapses mass. Bigger stars will burn out cooler temperature gives it a red
under its own gravity, forming a color.
faster, while tiny stars may last up
heated core that becomes a star. until 100 billion years.

Planetary Nebula White dwarf


When a star is close to dying, White dwarves are dead stars that
it becomes a planetary have run out of fuel. Although
nebula, which consists of a they release little to no energy,
cloud of gas and dust in they spend around billions of
space. There are around years cooling down. These are
10,000 planetary nebulas in among the densest collections of
the galaxy. matter currently known.

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