{"id":90904,"date":"2023-01-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=90904"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:34:14","slug":"what-is-the-life-cycle-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Life Cycle of Stars? A Simple Answer to a Big Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the life cycle of stars? How do stars burn? How many stars are in the Milky Way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve always wanted to understand the natural world but found science classes tedious and science textbooks difficult to understand, author Bill Bryson can relate. <em>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/em> is an accessible overview of the natural sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading for Bryson&#8217;s explanation of the life cycle of stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-the-life-cycle-of-stars\">What Is the Life Cycle of Stars?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the life cycle of stars? Let&#8217;s go back to the beginning. Bryson recounts that, very soon after the big bang, the particles that it produced combined to form simple elements (mostly hydrogen and helium) but then cooled off too much to fuse into heavier elements. So, at first, the universe consisted only of clouds of gas. The density of these gas clouds was very nearly uniform, but not <em>perfectly<\/em> uniform. So, over time, gravity caused them to clump together. As they did, some of the densest regions collapsed in on themselves, creating stars. The resulting clumps of stars became galaxies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Using sensitive equipment, astronomers can detect electromagnetic radiation that was emitted by the hot gases of the early universe. <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/decoding-the-cosmic-microwave-background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They can even take pictures of it<\/a>, and these pictures show slight variations in the intensity of the radiation, corresponding to the regional variations in the density of the gas that would eventually allow stars and galaxies to form.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryson says that scientists don\u2019t know exactly how many stars are in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but that they estimate somewhere between 100 and 400 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The reason that estimates for the number of stars in our galaxy vary is that <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.stackexchange.com\/questions\/1083\/how-do-scientists-know-there-are-about-300-billion-stars-in-a-galaxy-and-there-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">astronomers use several different methods to measure the stellar density<\/a>\u2014the number of stars per unit volume of space\u2014and size of the galaxy. Each method includes certain approximations or simplifying assumptions that make it possible to obtain a result, but they also introduce some imprecision into that result.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Bryson explains, stars \u2018burn\u2019 by fusing the atomic nuclei of lighter elements into heavier elements. Certain types of stars explode after they burn up all of their hydrogen and helium, creating clouds of debris that contain heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The explosion is called a supernova.&nbsp; Debris clouds from supernovas can enrich clouds of interstellar hydrogen and helium with heavier elements, making it possible for stars with rocky planets to form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Basically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/6638-supernova.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supernova explosions<\/a> happen when stars don\u2019t burn their fuel evenly. Stars of a certain size will fuse hydrogen, helium, and other elements in their cores, but also have a lot of hydrogen and helium near the surface that isn\u2019t hot enough to fuse. When the core burns out, the rest of the star collapses in on itself, which causes it to heat up. As it heats up, the remaining hydrogen and helium may fuse all at once, releasing a sudden burst of energy that tears the star apart. So, when the core runs out of fuel, the star starts to implode, and then the implosion rebounds in an explosion when the fuel above the core all \u201cignites\u201d simultaneously.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the life cycle of stars? How do stars burn? How many stars are in the Milky Way? If you&#8217;ve always wanted to understand the natural world but found science classes tedious and science textbooks difficult to understand, author Bill Bryson can relate. 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