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Lives of stars
Stars form in clouds of gas, shine by fusing light elements into heavier ones, and end in a way set mostly by their mass: as a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole. Most of the carbon, oxygen and iron around us was made inside earlier stars.
Connects to
- Astronomy
- Telescopes
- Orbits
- The expanding universe
- The cosmic web
- Are we alone?
- What shapes the web’s threads?
- Are we made of stars?
- How life began
- How did life begin?
- Is there life elsewhere?