Life Cycle of Stars

an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars.

• nebula

• main sequence star

• mass

• luminosity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

contracting mass of gas which represents an early stage in the formation of a star, before nucleosynthesis has begun

• supervona

• black hole

• protostar

• gravity

stars that are fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium atoms in their cores.

• super redgiant

• red giant

• Nebula

• main sequence star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

very large star of high luminosity and low surface temperature, thought to be in a late stage of evolution when no hydrogen remains in the core to fuel nuclear fusion.

• nuclear fusion

• main sequence star

• core collapse

• red giant

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

a small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet, formed when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula.

• black dwarf

• white dwarf

• super redgiant

• mass

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

extremely large red giant star with a minimum of 15 solar masses. The best known red supergiant is Betelgeuse, with a luminosity about 10,000 times that of the Sun.

• super redgiant

• main sequence star

• supernova

• neutron star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.

• nebula

• supernova

• luminosity

• red giant

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

a celestial object of very small radius and very high density, composed predominantly of closely packed neutrons, thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion

• neutron star

• black hole

• gravity

• nuclear fusion

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.

INFORMAL

• low mass star

• high mass star

• black hole

• luminosity

a measure of the amount of matter in an object.

• luminosity

• mass

• main sequence star

• low mass star

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-1