HOW

DO
STARS
FORM?
“The DARKEST NGHT produces a
BRIGHTEST STAR”

STAGE 1: GIANT GAS

CLOUD

STAGE 2: A PROTO
STAR
STAGE 3: T TAURI
STAR
STAGE 5: RED GIANT
STAGE 4: MAIN
SEQUENCE
 STAGE 6: THE
FUSION OF HEAVIER
ELEMENTS

STAGE 7.
SUPERNOVAE AND
PLANETARY
NEBULAE
 Interstellar space — Proto star formed as
the region between gravity begins to pull
stars inside a galaxy the gases together into
— is home to clouds of a ball. This process is
gas and dust. This known as accretion. As
interstellar gravity pulls the
medium contains gasses closer to the
primordial leftovers center of the ball,
from the formation of gravitational energy
the galaxy, detritus begins to heat them,
from stars, and the raw causing the gasses to
ingredients for future emit radiation.
stars and planets.
https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/research/topic/interstellar-medium-and-
molecular-clouds#:~:text=Interstellar%20space
%20%E2%80%94%20the%20region%20between,for%20future
http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/Labs/StarLife/
%20stars%20and%20planets. protostars.html#:~:text=A%20protostar%20is
%20formed%20as,radiation%20simply%20escapes
%20into%20space.
 A young low-mass star Stars on the main
characterized by sequence are those
variability, the presence that are fusing
of hydrogen emission hydrogen into helium in
lines, and often other their cores. The
signatures of radiation and heat from
circumstellar gas and this reaction keep the
dust, including bright x- force of gravity from
ray, ultraviolet, infrared, collapsing the star
and radio emissions. during this phase of the
star's life. This is also
the longest phase of a
star's life.
https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/
a757219#:~:text=A%20young%20low%2Dmass
%20star,%2C%20infrared%2C%20and%20radio
%20emissions.
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/
stars1.html#:~:text=Stars%20on%20the%20main
%20sequence,phase%20of%20a%20star's%20life.
A red giant forms after a In the core of stars
star has run out of small, light atomic
hydrogen fuel for nuclear nuclei fuse together to
fusion, and has begun
form heavier atomic
the process of dying. A
nuclei, releasing huge
star maintains its stability
through a fine balance amounts of energy in
between its own gravity, the process. Elements
which holds it together, up to nickel and iron
and the outwards can be formed in this
pressure from ongoing way
thermonuclear fusion
processes taking place at
its core.

https://esahubble.org/wordbank/red-giant/
#:~:text=A%20red%20giant%20forms
%20after,taking%20place%20at%20its
%20core
https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/how-are-
heavy-elements-formed-neutron-star-
collisions#:~:text=The%20most%20common
%20one%20is,be%20formed%20in%20this
%20way.
Planetary nebulae are
not made by
supernovae. A
planetary nebula is
born when a low-mass
star (less than around
eight times the mass of
the Sun) dies, while a
supernova is the result
of the death of a
massive star.

https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/
are-planetary-nebulae-made-by-supernovae/
#:~:text=Planetary%20nebulae%20are%20not
%20made,death%20of%20a%20massive
%20star