Stars

Introduction

A star is a giant cloud of hot gas. Two strong forces are present in stars that counteract each other: gravitation and internal gas pressure.
The gravitation works to bring the star together, to collapse. The internal gas pressure works to expand the star (when a gas is under pressure it strives to expand and decrease the pressure). When these forces are equal the star is in balance. Should one of these two forces gain the upper hand, the star's mass will determine its fate.

Stars vary greatly in size and mass. The latter has a great impact on a star's length of "life". The more mass, the greater forces that keep the star in balance and the faster it will burn its fuel.

In this part of the gallery you can read and see information not only about what kinds of stars there are, but also how they form, evolve, and die. You can also read about what they look like in the interior and what processes occur.

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Stellar formation *
Stellar interiors *
Fusion processes *
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram *

Black holes *
Blue giants *
Brown dwarfs *
Giants *
Neutron_stars *
Pulsars *
Red dwarfs *
Red giants *
Sunlike stars *
Super giants *
Superheavy stars *
Supernovae *
White_dwarfs *

Globular clusters *
Open clusters *

* Means empty. I'm working on completing this gallery as soon as possible.