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Life of Stars - Fate of stars

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In the previous blog, we spoke about the birth of stars and how light was bought into our universe, which was merely an infant at that time. In this article we'll talk about the life of these stars and eventually, their fate after their long journey.. As you may remember, we discussed the birth and ignition of a star and we discussed nuclear fusion in detail as well. We also concluded with the sizes of stars, (small, medium and supermassive). What's next? How does different  size result in a different life and death of stars? We'll answer these questions and more in this blog. Small sized stars Small stars live a rather long and boring life. They live for hundreds of billions of years and are about quarter the mass of the sun (also called solar mass, which is  approximately 2×10 30  kg) . They start off as relatively cool and dim red dwarfs . As they age, their surface temperature increases and they become a blue dwarf . Eventually, as their light fades slowly, they cool d