Life Cycle of Stars

White Dwarf

• Star left at the core of a planetary nebula

• a large cloud of gas or dust in space

• the earliest stage of a star's life

• red super giant explodes

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Nebula

• Star left at the core of a planetary nebula

• a large cloud of gas or dust in space

• the earliest stage of a star's life

• red super giant explodes

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Protostar

• Star left at the core of a planetary nebula

• a large cloud of gas or dust in space

• the earliest stage of a star's life

• red super giant explodes

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Supernova

• Star left at the core of a planetary nebula

• a large cloud of gas or dust in space

• the earliest stage of a star's life

• red super giant explodes

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Neutron Star

• The remains of a high mass star

• Exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no light escapes

• What a medium-mass star becomes at the end of its life

• The star left at the core of a planetary nebula

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Black Hole

• The remains of a high mass star

• Exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no light escapes

• What a medium-mass star becomes at the end of its life

• The star left at the core of a planetary nebula

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Black Dwarf

• The remains of a high mass star

• Exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no light escapes

• What a medium-mass star becomes at the end of its life

• The star left at the core of a planetary nebula

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What is the force that acts on a nebula to cause the formation of a protostar?

• Inertia

• Nuclear Fusion

• Gravity

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At which point in its development does a star exit the protostar stage and become a main sequence star?

• When the nuclear fusion process begins

• When collisions in particles result in an increase of temperature

• When gravity squeezes it making it more dense

• When it gets bigger and gravity gets stronger causing it to collide more often

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When a star begins to run out of ___________, it is the beginning of the end of the star's ability to produce energy in a process known as ________ _______.

• Hydrogen; nuclear fusion

• Helium; nuclear fusion

• Hydrogen; solar radiation

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