How are stars created? Do stars last forever?
June 16, 2008
- They are born from other stars. They do not last forever. They last until they have a baby.
- A star starts as a cloud of mostly hydrogen and a little helium and some heavier things. It collapses and gets hotter. Hydrogen is turned into helium by nuclear fusion. And then you have a star. Stars do not last forever. They start to break down recycling to make new stars.
(The first answer the child learned from a TV show, the second came from research)
Entry Filed under: How Things Work, How it's Made, Nature, Nuclear Physics, Solids and Liquids. .
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