Layers of a Star
The only part of a star that does nuclear fusion
What is the core?
Where all stars, no matter their size, start
What is nebula?
The first phase of any star
What is protostar?
The element that all stars are made up of
What is hydrogen?
The element that stars stop fusing at
What is iron?
The third layer from the center
What is the convective zone?
Where high mass stars end
What is black hole?
The phase that our sun is currently in
What is the main sequence?
The place where gases start to clump together to form stars
What is the nebula?
What are millions to billions of years?
The second layer from the center
Where sun-sized stars end
Where average mass stars end
What is a neutron star?
Where the gases spin to create a hot, dense core called the protostar
What is a spinning disk?
The state of matter of stars
What is plasma?
The layer of a star we can actually see
What is the photosphere?
The explosion in average mass and high mass stars
What is supernova explosion?
The stage after the main sequence of a sun-sized star
What is a stellar nursery?
What is gravity?
The outermost layer
What is the corona?
The process that takes place in the main sequence star phase
The phase after the main sequence in average mass and high mass stars
What is a red supergiant?
What smaller elements fusing together create
What are heavier elements?
The closest star system to us
What is Alpha Centauri?