what happens when a main-sequence star exhausts its core hydrogen fuel supply?
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Phyast 104 Study Guide (2012-13 Godfrey) What happens when a main-sequence star exhausts its core hydrogen fuel supply? The core shrinks while the rest of the star expands. The main source of energy for a star as it grows in size to become a red giant is _____. hydrogen fusion in a shell surrounding the central core: What is a helium flash? The sudden onset of helium fusion in the core of a low-mass star
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- B) protostar, main-sequence star, red giant, supernova, neutron star . C) protostar, main-sequence star, planetary nebula, red giant . D) main-sequence star, white dwarf, red giant, planetary nebula, protostar . Answer: A. 4) What happens when a main-sequence star exhausts its core hydrogen fuel supply? A) The entire star shrinks in size. B) The core shrinks while the rest of the star expands.
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- If the fusion reactions in the core become too weak, a star can and does collapse. Such collapse can provide new conditions in a core that result in new types of fusion reactions, so that expansion follows. If fusion reactions in the core become too strong, a star can and does explode. Such events can be observed.
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Main Sequence Stars The simple model of any main sequence star is of a dense gas/fluid in a state of hydrostatic equilibrium. The inward acting force, gravity, is balanced by outward acting forces of gas pressure and the radiation pressure.
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What is the life cycle of a star? Maturity. 1  Eventually a star will run out of its hydrogen fuel, and begin fusing helium and other elements instead. 2  Red dwarf stars will use up all their hydrogen and collapse directly into white dwarfs. 3  Low mass stars like our Sun will expand and become red giants. 4  This happens when a star runs out of hydrogen at its core.
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Post-Main Sequence Stars As with most stages in a star's life, the exact post-main sequence is primarily dependent on its mass. We will start by looking at what happens to a a one-solar mass star like our Sun and then explore what happens to higher-mass stars.
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What event marks the birth of a star and what event marks its death? Carbon burns so rapidly and with so much energy the star blows apart. carbon burning occurs when the helium in the core of the star is gone. when carbon burning occurs, it creates iron. iron is so stable that it ends the nuclear fusion process with the star. Black holes may also cause the death of a star.
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Stars Stellar Mass and Fusion. The mass of a main-sequence star determines its core pressure and temperature. Stars of higher mass have higher core temperature and more rapid fusion, making those stars both more luminous and shorter-lived.
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- The energy needed to begin fusion comes from the gravity of the star. A cloud of mainly hydrogen gas collapses in on itself through the force of gravity. Once the inner core gets dense enough hydrogen starts to fuse. Once this has begun, it is self sustaining until the fuel runs out.
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Stars & Their Energy Sources The proton-proton chain is the main hydrogen fusion sequence powering main sequence stars such as our Sun and those of lower mass. The net result is that four protons are fused to form a He-4 nucleus, gamma photons, positrons and neutrinos.
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- So, broadly speaking, there are so many stars on the main sequence – compared to elsewhere in the H-R diagram – because stars spend much more of their lives burning hydrogen in their cores than they do producing energy in any other way!
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General Astronomy/Print version Type I Supernovae. Stars, like our Sun, spend most of their lives on what is known as the main sequence. The main sequence begins when the star initially forms -- igniting nuclear fusion in its core -- and ends once the star has exhausted the hydrogen needed to sustain fusion and begins fusing heavier elements.Once a star leaves the main sequence it will follow a particular path that depends on its mass.For type I supernovae, we are concerned with stars that are no more than about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun.These stars, like our Sun, will leave the main sequence and go through several phases as it fuses elements up to Carbon.nce a star leaves the main sequence it will follow a particular path that depends on its mass. For type I supernovae, we are concerned with stars that are no more than about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun.
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Origins of the Universe-2 A hydrogen fusing shell that produces a lot more energy than the hydrogen fusing core did, and that energy is used to push out the surface of the star. The more the shell converts hydrogen to helium, the smaller the core gets because helium is denser than hydrogen and gravity is compacting the helium together.
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Stars Supernovae Leave Behind Neutron Stars or Black Holes Main sequence stars over eight solar masses are destined to die in a titanic explosion called a supernova. A supernova is not merely a bigger nova. In a nova, only the star's surface explodes. In a supernova, the star's core collapses and then explodes. In massive stars, a complex series of nuclear reactions leads to the production of iron in the core.
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Life on the Main Sequence: How Stars Evolve At that point, the star is on the main sequence. It's All About the Mass Mass plays an important role in simply driving the star's fusion action, but mass is quite a bit more important during the life of the star.
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The Life of a Star Stage 1 - Massive stars evolve in a simlar way to a small stars until it reaces its main sequence stage (see small stars, stages 1-4). The stars shine steadily until the hydrogen has fused to form helium ( it takes billions of years in a small star, but only millions in a massive star).
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- 1 Most stars, including the sun, are main sequence stars, fueled by nuclear fusion converting hydrogen into helium. 2  For these stars, the hotter they are, the brighter. 3  These stars are in the most stable part of their existence; this stage generally lasts for about 5 billion years.
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The Life of a Star Massive stars have a mass 3x times that of the Sun. Some are 50x that of the Sun. Stage 1 - Massive stars evolve in a simlar way to a small stars until it reaces its main sequence stage (see small stars, stages 1-4).The stars shine steadily until the hydrogen has fused to form helium (it takes billions of years in a small star, but only millions in a massive star).he star expands to a Red Giant, below. Stage 8 - The helium core runs out, and the outer layers drift of away from the core as a gaseous shell, this gas that surrounds the core is called a Planetary Nebula.
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- It contains protons and neutrons, and has most of the mass of the atom. ] . Energy is released when this happens. The Sun and other stars use nuclear fusion to release energy. The sequence of nuclear fusion reactions in a star is complex-but, in general, hydrogen nuclei join to form helium nuclei. Here is one nuclear fusion reaction that takes place:
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Fusion Light nuclei join to form a heavier nucleus. Energy is released in the process. Fusion powers the stars and high yield thermonuclear weapons. Stars begin as a cloud of mostly hydrogen with about 25% helium and heavier elements in smaller quantities. The sun, 107 K core, hydrogen fuses to form helium through a process known as the proton-proton chain (often shortened to the p-p chain). More on stellar fusion in another section of this book.
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Stars Helium Flash. the explosive ignition of helium fusion in the core of a low-mass, giant star The thermostat of a low-mass red giant is broken because degeneracy pressure supports the core. Core temperature rises rapidly when helium fusion begins.
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- When the temperature in the core reaches about 100 million degrees, the helium will begin to fuse into carbon by a reaction known as the triple-alpha process, because it converts three helium nuclei into one carbon atom.This generates a great deal of heat.n heavier stars, the oxygen can in turn fuse with the helium to make neon.) Helium fusion produces only 9% as much energy per kilogram as hydrogen fusion, so energy-wise, the Sun continues to be mainly a hydrogen reactor. 90% of its luminosity still comes from burning hydrogen.
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- 1 Core Fusion--core has shrunk enough to create high enough temperatures to start Helium (or heavier element) fusion. 2  In low mass stars the onset of Helium fusion can be very rapid, producing a burst of energy-helium flash. 3  Eventually it settles down.
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Main Sequence Stars: Definition & Life Cycle When the stars go out. Eventually, a main sequence star burns through the hydrogen in its core, reaching the end of its life cycle. At this point, it leaves the main sequence. Stars smaller than a quarter the mass of the sun collapse directly into white dwarfs.