Star Autobiography
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I began my life in what looked like a multi colored lump of mashed potatoes called a nebula.
Photo by Paul M. Hutchinson FRAS
NEBULA
Photo by fractalSpawn
In my nebula, I began finding all of my dust friends and stuck to them, making a big cluster of dust.
Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Then we all squeezed together and become a protostar.
Photo by Hubble Heritage
Next, after waiting and waiting I finally became a real star! I am now a high mass star.
Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
I am in the main sequence of my life. This is where I will spend most of my life as a massive main sequence star.
Photo by zAmb0ni
As a high mass star I am very heavy and big. For food I eat hydrogen. Now I am 1,000 times bigger than I used to be.
Photo by inQuadrato
After a while, I ran out of hydrogen, so I had to eat helium. Helium is kind of like hamburgers in the star world. The more helium I ate, the fatter and bigger I got.
Photo by fdecomite
Even though I am a supergiant I still need to eat and get energy. To get energy I keep eating more and more helium.
Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Soon, I ate so much helium that I exploded into a supernova. Little pieces of me blasted all around me! My explosion was so
big you could hear and see the supernova
from light years away.
Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
A supernova explodes because they
eat to much helium, the core collapses and
explodes.
Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Since I was so massive as a main sequence star, my supernova explosion was so big that I transformed myself into a black hole. My gravity was so strong that even light could not
escape it. I spent the rest of my life as a black hole!
Photo by thebadastronomer
