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Life Cycle of Stars • 1st Step: –Stars form from nebulas • Regions of concentrated dust and gas left from the BIG BANG (or other stars’ demise) –Gas and dust begin to collide, contract and heat up • All due to gravity, even the smallest particle has gravitational attraction! –[What 2 things affect gravity?] Eagle Nebula Orion Nebula Horsehead Nebula Triangulum Nebula • 2nd Step: – As nebula contracts, a small star is formed • Called a protostar – Eventually, the protostar will begin nuclear FUSION • Hydrogen protons attract to each other – Strong nuclear force (Nucleus particles stick) » Heat (15,000,000° C) + gravity and….. \FUSION begins • Continued FUSION is necessary for stars to survive. • Can take 30,000,000 years for protostar to form • 3rd Step: The HertzsprungRussell Diagram – Star joins the main sequence • 90% of stars spend life here • Nuclear fusion = Hydrogen into Helium • Mass of star determines location on main sequence • Ranges in size from ½ Sun to 20 times the Sun’s size • Color depends on the surface temperature • Beginning of the End: – Stars begin to die when they run out of hydrogen • Gravity begins to take over Really Low Mass Star • Doesn’t burn Hydrogen (dud) • Begins to cool and forms a Brown Dwarf Brown Dwarf going around a Red Dwarf Low Mass 4.2 light years Stars away! • From ½ all the way down to 0.075% of the Sun’s mass • Burn cool, less than 3500 K. Dim light. • Can live a REALLY long time. 10,000,000,000,000 years? • Our nearest star neighbor is Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf. • Most numerous stars in the entire Universe! The smallest of the red dwarves would be about ten times less massive than our sun. If it were OUR sun, it would only be about 8 times brighter than a full moon.. Intermediate mass Stars (like the Sun up to 5x Sun) – Star core begins to shrink; outer core of hydrogen begins to fuse and expand • Star gets bigger Red Giant! Red Giant Mira (about 332-402 times the radius of our Sun) Eventually the outer shell is blown off (planetary nebula) and the remaining core is a white, hot and small… White Dwarf! M Helix Nebula High Mass Stars—form supergiants! Hydrogen burning 7 million years Helium burning 500 thousand years Carbon burning 600 years Neon burning 1 year Oxygen burning 6 months Silicon burning 1 day Supergiant Red Giant S S • Core is no longer fusing (iron is it!) • The balance of pressure loses and the entire star collapses • Massive explosion – Creates heavier elements Supernova! Neutron Star • Star with a core from 1.4 to 3 times the size of the Sun becomes a neutron. • Electrons and neutrons combine into neutrons. • 10 km (6 mi) in diameter with a mass more than our Sun! • A teaspoon of neutron star would be about 10 million tons • Acts like a huge magnet with magnetic poles, can be a pulsar What is a Black Hole??? – An object so massive and dense that not even lightBlack can escape its gravity Holes Info Sheet – The end result from a supernova that leaves a core of 3+ times the Sun. – Collapses to a singularity • Recap: Death of Stars: Low and Medium Mass Low Mass Main Sequence Star Medium Mass Red Dwarf Red Giant Planetary Nebula White Dwarf Black Dwarf ?? • Death of Stars: High Mass Main Sequence Star Red Super Giant Supernova Neutron Star Black Hole • Recap: High Mass Stars: – Core size greater than 1.4x our sun • Create high mass elements such as iron – Neutron Star • Formed if remaining star is 1.4-3x sun’s mass. – Black Holes • Formed if remaining star > 3x sun’s mass Recap Video • Death of Stars: – What stars end up as depend on mass – Low and Medium mass stars • Planetary nebula --------- white dwarf – High mass stars • Supernova --------- neutron star or black hole • As fusion begins to slow down, the core of the sun will contract • Temperature in the core will rise • The outer layers of the sun will expand, consuming the inner planets • Sun will become a Red Giant Click ME! Video Link – Core of the sun will begin to fuse helium into larger elements such as carbon and oxygen – Continuing over the next 100 million years… • Core will become entirely carbon and oxygen • Core will contract • Outer layers will expand – Outer layers will form a planetary nebula • Core of sun will become a white dwarf How did it start? Gravity, gas pressure, magnetic fields, and rotation cause disk to form around protostar. Conservation of angular momentum!