The Stellar Cycle Wright State University恒星周期莱特州立大学.pptVIP

The evolution of 10,000 stars Prasad * U6_StarLife If we came back in 10 billion years, the Sun will have a remaining mass about half of its current mass. Where did the other half go? It was lost in a supernova explosion It flows outward in a planetary nebula It is converted into energy by nuclear fusion The core of the Sun gravitationally collapses, absorbing the mass Prasad * U6_StarLife A star cluster containing _____ would be MOST likely to be a few billion years old. luminous red stars hot ionized gas infrared sources inside dark clouds luminous blue stars Prasad * U6_StarLife * Fruit flies view of humans. What characterizes human life cycle from incidental characteristics? * * * This animation is from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and is in the public domain. For policy statement see: http://hubble//copyright/ * /ddr/stellar/beginner.html This simulation shows where the Sun lies and moves on the HR diagram as it evolves over time. * * Stars with mass 0.5 Msun do not need to go through the RG phase. They also have lifetime longer than the age of the U U6_StarLife U6_StarLife U6_StarLife U6_StarLife The Birth, Life and Death of Stars Prasad * U6_StarLife How can we learn about the lives of stars when little changes except on timescales much longer than all of human history? Suppose you had never seen a tree before, and you were given one minute in a forest to determine the life cycle of trees. Could you piece together the story without ever seeing a tree grow? This is about the equivalent of a human lifetime to the lifetime of the Sun. Prasad * U6_StarLife Stellar “Forest” Prasad * U6_StarLife Molecular cloud Cool molecular cloudsgravitationally collapseto form clusters of stars Stars generatehelium, carbonand iron throughstellar nucleosynthesis The hottest, mostmassive stars in thecluster supernova –heavier elements areformed in the explosion. New (dirty) molecularclouds are leftbehind by thesupernova debris. The Stellar Cycle Prasad * U