AS102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Main Sequence
Document Summary
High-mass stars live life in the fast lane, consuming hydrogen feverishly, and dying relatively young from a billion years, or so, down to just a few million years for the most massive. Needless to say, because of this, we see many more low-mass stars than high-mass stars. In this lesson we study the deaths of stars. This may seem like an improbable topic as we tend to think of stars as living forever. You will learn that the sequence of events in the death of stars depends critically on one stellar property, the mass of the star. Along the way you will learn about star clusters. Finally, although this will be explored much more in the next lesson, you will become familiar with such terms as white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes and supernovae. The dying stage of a star"s life depends critically on its mass.
