A protostar is created when gas and dust particles are pulled together in a Nebula. Fusion begins, with a high pressure helium core and hydrogen outer layer. The outer layers lose a lot of mass to the atmosphere during the Red Giant phase.
A protostar is created when gas and dust particles are pulled together in a Nebula. Fusion begins, with a high pressure helium core and hydrogen outer layer. The outer layers lose a lot of mass to the atmosphere during the Red Giant phase.
A protostar is created when gas and dust particles are pulled together in a Nebula. Fusion begins, with a high pressure helium core and hydrogen outer layer. The outer layers lose a lot of mass to the atmosphere during the Red Giant phase.
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The outer layers lose a lot of mass to
http://seds.org/MESSIER/Pics/Jpg/m20hst.jpg the atmosphere during the Red Giant phase. In medium/massive The fusion continues until sized stars, (like the sun) The core is it burns up all of the so hot that it goes from Helium to hydrogen in the core, and Carbon. For all stars after the red the thin layer between the Giant phase, the star shrinks and outer layer and the core becomes the same size as before. expand creating a red Then the star goes into Planetary giant. Nebula, which is where all mass that is not in the core is thrown outward off the star, leaving the core, known as a white dwarf. http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~afrank/A105/LectureX/FG20_003.GIF http://www.chiro.org/LINKS/WALLPAPER/AQUILA_PLANETARY_NEBULAE.JPG
If the star is not too massive, the white dwarf
will eventually die. But, if the star is Massive, it will not lose enough mass to become a white dwarf. The stars outer layers will eventually collapse inward, toward the core. The core will become an extremely dense neutron star, formed by pressure on the protons and electrons, and then causing the mass that is collapsing inward to explode out, creating something known as a supernova. If the mass falling inward is too strong, the neutron star will not be able to bounce the fall mass back http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/10/081001130010-large.jpg out. This will end up creating a black hole. http://www.soton.ac.uk/maths/img/research/applied/supermassive_black_hole.jpg