Have you ever wondered how stars are born? And no, we're not talking about celebrity stars here but those twinkling celestial bodies you look up to every night.
According to NASA, stars are born through turbulence in the clouds of dust in the galaxy. The turbulence then causes gas and dust to collapse heating up the material at the center. This hot core is called a "protostar" which gathers gas and dust. The "protostar" eventually becomes a star after some time though some of the remaining dust may become planets, asteroids or even comets!
The sun is perhaps the biggest sun known to mankind and according to NASA, it took it a good 50 million years to be the sun we know today. The sun will stay in this mature phase for about 10 billion years. Like all things in this world, stars will eventually die out and lose their sparkle. Some stars become white dwarfs while some even become black holes!
Interested? Check out the following educational videos and awesome compilations explaining how exactly stars are born - and well, fade away.
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