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What Type of Star am I?

What Type of Star am I?. I am a contracting cloud heating up by friction- I’m not really a star yet I may be in this stage for millions of years. What am I?. I am a relatively old star whose diameter has swollen enormously. My temperature has also cooled and I’m very luminous.

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What Type of Star am I?

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  1. What Type of Star am I? • I am a contracting cloud heating up by friction- I’m not really a star yet • I may be in this stage for millions of years

  2. What am I? • I am a relatively old star whose diameter has swollen enormously. • My temperature has also cooled and I’m very luminous. • My contracting hydrogen core has turned to helium and eventually will turn to carbon

  3. What Type of Star am I? • I am a small, very dense, dim, hot star near the end of my life. • I am made mostly of carbon. • I formed from the remains of a red giant star • I am about the size of the Earth (but much heavier

  4. What type of star am I? • I’m as big as a star can get…I have many shells which fuse different elements- even Ni and Fe! • I will most likely go supernova and then maybe neutron star (or even black hole). • Stars like me (and our explosions) are the sources of all the heavy elements on your planet.

  5. What am I? • I formed from a massive star (over 8x the mass of our sun) • Not even light can escape me

  6. What am I? • I am an enormous cloud of gas and dust • I will start to contract and rotate. • I may give birth to millions of stars.

  7. What Type of Star am I? • I am a very small, super-dense star • I am composed mostly of tightly-packed neutrons

  8. What am I? • I am a huge explosion that occurs at the end of a mid- to heavy-weight star's life • I releases a tremendous amount of energy, expelling the outer layers of the star and becoming extremely bright • What remains after me is a neutron star or a black hole

  9. What am I? • I formed from a star that used up its hydrogen and helium fuel. The star wasn’t hot enough to fuse carbon, so it blew it outer layers and well, here I am! • I am just a shell of gas, but a really pretty one  • Look carefully to see the white dwarf in the center!

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