The+Life+Cycle+of+a+Star

A star comes and goes much like an average person, but they take thousands, to millions, to maybe even trillions of years to do so!

A star starts off as a large cloud of dust and gas in a nebula (protostar), like a fetus. As gravity pulls them inward, they become a star. This star is either an average star (like our sun) or a massive star, like a child. This phase will continue for 50 million years. They then grow larger and become either a Red Giant or a Red Super Giant, like a growing person. Then, they start to die. They either explode into a supernova, or turn into a Planetary Nebula, like an old man. This phase will only last about 10,000 years. Their final stage is death. They then turn into a White Dwarf Star, Neutron Star, or a Black Hole. After that's gone, the star is practically dead. But it takes a lot longer for this to die because smaller stars burn fuel slower.