This is thinly spread hydrogen gas and carbon and silicon dust.

The birthplace of stars

A contracting cloud of gas and dust; the earliest stage of a star's life

An extremely hot ball of gas, with hydrogen (H2) fusing into helium(He)at its core.

Stars live most of their lifetime in this phase.

A star that expands and cools once it runs out of hydrogen fuel.

Forms as a Red Giant's life ends.

A small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star

This phase of a stars life forms when the star has run out of fuel and is the final stage in the cycle for a low mass star.

The stage in the life cycle of a massive star during which the star increases in size and becomes very bright.

High mass stars end their life in a huge explosion.

The core is very dense with its gravity 2 billion times that of Earth.

The last stage of stellar evolution in high mass stars.