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Given sufficient temperature and pressure, 4 hydrogen nuclei fuse to produce helium, at the same time giving off energy in the form of heat and light and other forms of radiation. This means that stars, with a few exceptions such as super-massive stars, last for many billions of years.
But if the star has about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun, it undergoes a carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle to convert hydrogen to helium. How long this newly formed star will last depends on its mass and how quickly it consumes hydrogen. Small red dwarf stars can last hundreds of billions of years, while large supergiants can consume their hydrogen within a few million years and detonate as supernovae. But how do stars explode and seed their elements around the Universe? Thatâs another episode. We have written many articles about star formation on Universe Today.