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Characteristics of Stars
Properties of Stars
Star Color and Temperature • Color is a clue to a star’s temperature.
A constellation is an apparent group of
stars originally named for mythical
characters. The sky contains 88
constellations.
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The Constellation Orion
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Characteristics of Stars
Properties of Stars
Binary Stars and Stellar Mass • A binary star is one of two stars revolving around a common
center of mass under their mutual gravitational attraction.
• Binary stars are used to determine the star property most difficult
to calculate—its mass.
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Common Center of Mass
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Measuring Distances to Stars
Properties of Stars
Parallax
• The nearest stars have the largest parallax angles, while those of
distant stars are too small to measure.
Light-Year • A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 9.5 trillion
kilometers.
• Parallax is the slight shifting of the apparent position of a star due
to the orbital motion of Earth.
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Parallax
Original Photo
Photo taken 6 months later
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Stellar Brightness
Properties of Stars
Apparent Magnitude • Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star when viewed from
Earth.
• Three factors control the apparent brightness of a star as seen
from Earth: how big it is, how hot it is, and how far away it is.
Absolute Magnitude • Absolute magnitude is the apparent brightness of a star if it were
viewed from a distance of 32.6 light-years.
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Distance, Apparent Magnitude, and Absolute Magnitude of Some Stars
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Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
Properties of Stars
A Hertzsprung–Russell diagram shows the
relationship between the absolute
magnitude and temperature of stars.
A main-sequence star is a star that falls
into the main sequence category on the
H–R diagram. This category contains the
majority of stars and runs diagonally
from the upper left to the lower right on
the H–R diagram.
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Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
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Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
Properties of Stars
A red giant is a large, cool star of high
luminosity; it occupies the upper-right
portion of the H–R diagram.
A supergiant is a very large, very bright red
giant star.
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Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
Properties of Stars
Variable Stars • A Cepheid variable is a star whose brightness varies periodically
because it expands and contracts; it is a type of pulsating star.
• A nova is a star that explosively increases in brightness.
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Images of a Nova Taken Two Months Apart
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Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram
Properties of Stars
Interstellar Matter • A nebula is a cloud of gas and/or dust in space.
• There are two major types of nebulae:
1. Bright nebula
2. Dark nebula
- Emission nebula
- Reflection nebula
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Interstellar Matter
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Star Birth
Stellar Evolution
Protostar Stage • A protostar is a collapsing cloud of gas and dust destined to
become a star—a developing star not yet hot enough to engage
in nuclear fusion.
• When the core of a protostar has reached about 10 million K,
pressure within is so great that nuclear fusion of hydrogen begins,
and a star is born.
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Nebula, Birthplace of Stars
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Balanced Forces
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Star Birth
Stellar Evolution
Main-Sequence Stage • Stars age at different rates.
- Massive stars use fuel faster and exist for only a few million
years.
- Small stars use fuel slowly and exist for perhaps hundreds of
billions of years.
• A star spends 90 percent of its life in the main-sequence
stage.
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Star Birth
Stellar Evolution
Red-Giant Stage • Hydrogen burning migrates outward. The star’s outer envelope
expands.
• The core collapses as helium is converted to carbon. Eventually
all nuclear fuel is used and gravity squeezes the star.
• Its surface cools and becomes red.
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Burnout and Death
Stellar Evolution
All stars, regardless of their size, eventually
run out of fuel and collapse due to gravity.
• Stars less than one-half the mass of the sun never evolve to the
red giant stage but remain in the stable main-sequence stage
until they consume all their hydrogen fuel and collapse into a
white dwarf.
Death of Low-Mass Stars
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Burnout and Death
Stellar Evolution
Death of Medium-Mass Stars • Stars with masses similar to the sun evolve in essentially the
same way as low-mass stars.
• During their collapse from red giants to white dwarfs, medium-
mass stars are thought to cast off their bloated outer layer,
creating an expanding round cloud of gas called planetary
nebula.
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Planetary Nebula
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Burnout and Death
Stellar Evolution
• In contrast to sunlike stars, stars that are over three times the
sun’s mass have relatively short life spans, which end in a
supernova event.
Death of Massive Stars
• A supernova is an exploding massive star that increases in
brightness many thousands of times.
• The massive star’s interior condenses and may produce a hot,
dense object that is either a neutron star or a black hole.
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Crab Nebula in the Constellation Taurus
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Stellar Evolution
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Burnout and Death
Stellar Evolution
H–R Diagrams and Stellar Evolution • Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams have been helpful in formulating
and testing models of stellar evolution.
• They are also useful for illustrating the changes that take place in
an individual star during its life span.
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Life Cycle of a Sunlike Star
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Stellar Remnants
Stellar Evolution
White Dwarfs • A white dwarf is a star that has exhausted most or all of its nuclear
fuel and has collapsed to a very small size, believed to be near
its final stage of evolution.
• The sun begins as a nebula, spends much of its life as a main-
sequence star, and then becomes a red giant, a planetary
nebula, a white dwarf, and, finally, a black dwarf.
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Summary of Evolution for Stars of Various Masses
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Stellar Remnants
Stellar Evolution
Neutron Stars • A neutron star is a star of extremely high density composed
entirely of neutrons.
• Neutron stars are thought to be remnants of supernova events.
Supernovae • A pulsar is a source that radiates short bursts or pulses of radio
energy in very regular periods.
• A pulsar found in the Crab Nebula during the 1970s is
undoubtedly the remains of the supernova of 1054.
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Veil Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus
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Stellar Remnants
Stellar Evolution
Black Holes • A black hole is a massive star that has collapsed to such a small
volume that its gravity prevents the escape of everything,
including light.
• Scientists think that as matter is pulled into a black hole, it should
become very hot and emit a flood of X-rays before being pulled in.
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Black Hole
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Structure of the Sun
The Sun
Because the sun is made of gas, no sharp
boundaries exist between its various layers.
Keeping this in mind, we can divide the sun
into four parts: the solar interior; the visible
surface, or photosphere; and two
atmospheric layers, the chromosphere and
corona.
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Structure of the Sun
The Sun
Photosphere • The photosphere is the region of the sun that radiates
energy to space, or the visible surface of the sun.
• It consists of a layer of incandescent gas less than 500
kilometers thick.
• It exhibits a grainy texture made up of many small,
bright markings, called granules, produced by
convection.
• Most of the elements found on Earth also occur on the
sun.
• Its temperature averages approximately 6000 K
(10,000ºF).
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Structure of the Sun
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Structure of the Sun
24.3 The Sun
Chromosphere • The chromosphere is the first layer of the solar atmosphere
found directly above the photosphere.
• It is a relatively thin, hot layer of incandescent gases a few
thousand kilometers thick.
• Its top contains numerous spicules, which are narrow jets of rising
material.
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Chromosphere
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Structure of the Sun
The Sun
Corona • The corona is the outer, weak layer of the solar atmosphere.
• The temperature at the top of the corona exceeds 1 million K.
• Solar wind is a stream of protons and electrons ejected at high
speed from the solar corona.
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The Active Sun
The Sun
Sunspots
• Sunspots appear dark because of their temperature, which is
about 1500 K less than that of the surrounding solar surface.
• A sunspot is a dark spot on the sun that is cool in contrast to the
surrounding photosphere.
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Sunspots
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The Active Sun
The Sun
Prominences
• Prominences are ionized gases trapped by magnetic fields that
extend from regions of intense solar activity.
• Prominences are huge cloudlike structures consisting of
chromospheric gases.
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Solar Prominence
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The Active Sun
The Sun
Solar Flares
• During their existence, solar flares release enormous amounts of
energy, much of it in the form of ultraviolet, radio, and X-ray
radiation.
• Solar flares are brief outbursts that normally last about an hour
and appear as a sudden brightening of the region above a
sunspot cluster.
• Auroras, the result of solar flares, are bright displays of ever-
changing light caused by solar radiation interacting with the
upper atmosphere in the region of the poles.
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The Solar Interior
The Sun
Nuclear Fusion
• During nuclear fusion, energy is released because some matter is
actually converted to energy.
• Nuclear fusion is the way that the sun produces energy. This
reaction converts four hydrogen nuclei into the nucleus of a
helium atom, releasing a tremendous amount of energy.
• It is thought that a star the size of the sun can exist in its
present stable state for 10 billion years. As the sun is already
4.5 billion years old, it is “middle-aged.”
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Nuclear Fusion