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    The document summarizes the life cycles of stars from their beginnings as protostars to their eventual ends as white or black dwarfs. Low-mass stars start as main sequence stars and later become red giants before shrinking into white dwarfs. High-mass stars burn through their fuel much faster, becoming supergiants and later exploding in supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars or possibly black holes.

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    The document summarizes the life cycles of stars from their beginnings as protostars to their eventual ends as white or black dwarfs. Low-mass stars start as main sequence stars and later become red giants before shrinking into white dwarfs. High-mass stars burn through their fuel much faster, becoming supergiants and later exploding in supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars or possibly black holes.

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    Life Cycles of Stars-Part 2

    Red Giant Stage


    the used up, the core starts to
    of low mass star is
    As the hydrogen in core a

    denser and hotter The increased tempera-


    collapse The core of the star hecomes This
    reaction Helium is converted to carbon
    ture causes another kind ot nulear
    of energy, causing the star to expand. It
    nuclear reaction gives oft great amounts
    star's life isrelatively short. The
    becomes a red giant // The red giant stage in a

    sun will be a main-sequence star tor a total of 10 billion years. But the sun will
    million years. //
    be a red giant for only about 500

    Dwarf Stage
    Eventually, most ot the helium in a red giant's
    core is changed carbon into

    and gravity makes it collapse inward. The


    Nuclear fusion slows. The star cools,
    and the star becomes
    is squeezed together very tightly,
    matter making up the star
    Earth. But its matter is
    a white dwart. // A typical
    white dwarf is about the size of
    burned-out
    Earth. Eventually, the star becomes a
    tar denser than any matter on
    called
    that gives off no visible light. Then it is
    black chunk of very dense matter
    a black dwarf. //

    Life of a High-Mass Star


    massive as the sun have a very ditferent life
    Stars more than six times as
    at a much faster
    cycle than low-mass stars.
    A high-mass star uses up its hydrogen
    100 million years, a high-mass star
    has no hydrogen
    rate. After only about 50 to
    The star
    left. At this time, the core collapses and the outer layers expand greatly.
    of the super giant can no longer
    giant. / Eventually, the
    core
    becomes a super
    crash in
    layers of the star. The outside layers
    stand the pressure of the outside
    tremendous explosion that gives off an extraordinary
    very suddenly, causing a
    The star becomes a super-
    amount of Great shells of gases fly off the star.
    light. to happen in the
    most violent event known
    nova. A supernova explosion is the
    universe. /

    Stellar Evolution Neutron


    Star

    High-Mass Super Supernova


    Protostar Giant
    Star

    Black
    Hole

    Nebula

    Low-Mass Red White Black


    Protostar Giant Dwarf Dwarf
    Star

    Life Cycles of Stars-Part 2 313


    Alter a supernova explodes, only the tiny core of the star remains. This
    core, made up ot neutrons, is called a neutrOn star. Neutron stars are extremely
    dense. Astronomers hypothesize that after a massive star undergoes a supernova

    also become black hole. A black hole is so dense and its


    explosion, it may a

    gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light. Do black
    holes really exist? So far. scientists have no real proof. Black holes do not release
    light so they cant be observed directly.

    From Sciene Imsights Evploring Farth and Space by M DiSpezio, M Linner-Luebe, M. Lisowski, B. Sparks, and
    G Skoog Copyright © 2002 by Addison Wesley Longman Adapted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc
    All Rights Reserved

    314 Section 12/Test Materials:Level-Diagnostic Passages

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