# 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](https://mapideas.org/i/astronomy)
- [Telescopes](https://mapideas.org/i/as_scope)
- [Orbits](https://mapideas.org/i/as_orbits)
- [The expanding universe](https://mapideas.org/i/as_expansion)
- [The cosmic web](https://mapideas.org/i/as_web)
- [Are we alone?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_astro_alone)
- [What shapes the web’s threads?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_astro_threads)
- [Are we made of stars?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_astro_atoms)
- [How life began](https://mapideas.org/i/li_origin)
- [How did life begin?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_life_begin)
- [Is there life elsewhere?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_elsewhere)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Stellar evolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution)
- [Wikipedia: Stellar nucleosynthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis)

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