Life Cycle of Stars
Stars are giant balls of hydrogen gas - a bit like a massive H-bomb. The only reason they don't all explode is that they have so much gravity - that it pulls all the explosions back together again.
Stars do not stay the same forever - they have a timeline.
Timeline of a star like our sun
| Nebula (cloud of gas and dust) |
to | Protostar | to | main sequence star | to | Red giant | to | White Dwarf | to | Black Dwarf |
Activity
Research each of these keyword - to find out what they mean - and then make your own timeline - using photographs from the internet to show what happens to a star throughout its life. This could be a word document or PowerPoint.