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This content explains the process of star formation, focusing on how stars reach the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram and the factors influencing their evolution and lifespan.
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Guys, let's go ahead and get started.
Um, so we want to discuss how the stars
form and how they appear on the main
sequence line. Um, so we're going to be
talking about the birth of stars.
So, got a bullet up here. Let's do main sequence
stars. Not going to see it today,
but we will in the upcoming lectures. is
that once we explain how the star
appears on the main sequence
line, the formation of those other
types, the giants, the super giants, the
white dwarfs. So those are just end
states of main sequence stars. So the HR
diagram in itself is a snapshot of in
you know the entire process of stellar
evolution. So the first point the first
uh thing that we want to focus in on is
that you start with uh you know the
basic ingredients of stars and then
what's the process of how they appear on
the main sequence line. In other words,
born in a nutshell? Basically it's
gravity. Gravity is an attractive force
that clumps together matter. And if you
have enough matter and if it's dense and
cold, gravitational forces can clump it
together. And that's the basis of the
there. My
gosh, underline that word. So, what is
the interstellar
up. Just small particles that account
for about 10% of a galaxy's mass. Of
course, they're mostly hydrogen and helium.
You may think 10% that's a small
fraction and you would be correct and
you would say well where's the other
90%. Oh my gosh that's another lecture
off in the future is very important.
Actually it's not one lecture it's
probably two or three. Where is that
other 90%? But we're not there yet.
That's that's a ways away. So, okay,
hydrogen. That's the simplest atom.
proton in the nucleus and a a single
electron. And then 25% of the
interstellar medium is helium. That's
the second most simple atom. Um two
protons, two neutrons in the nucleus and
then surrounded by two
electrons. The production in the
hydrogen and the helium, they're not by
chance. They're at the end state of what
we'll get to later on. Big bang theory.
So when the universe is born various
processes we'll talk about that the
production of the hydrogen and the
helium and then we're short on 1%. So 1% others.
Now of course the others will include you
you
know carbon and uh lithium uh oxygen
uh some
others fundamental uh atoms. So if we
molecules. In fact, the hydrogen will
often form what's called molecular
I'll just put here H2. So you got a
hydrogen bond between another hydrogen
monoxide. That's
CO carbon and oxygen. And so that that's
in the others. So you get the carbon,
oxygen. Um now if you got oxygen, you
got molecular hydrogen, then it's
H2CO that basically the molecular
hydrogen and the carbon monoxide will
bind up to form the formaldahhide. Um,
this an L. Um,
cold. And because it's very cold,
uh, it'll emit very little
electromagnetic radiation. In fact, it
emits almost no radiation in the visible
range. So interstellar medium is very
emits most
most no
visible
But we have some
tricks to help locate interstellar
medium. And the goal is once you locate
interstellar medium, that's the point
where a star can be born.
So one of the things
that interstellar
medium will do is this effect we call u
starlight passes
It is
is
explain. It's somewhat technical, but
I'm going to use pink void. So take Pink
Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon album
cover, the glass prism, and come in here
light. And the glass prism is going to
bend the light. And the one that gets
bent the most is the blues and the
purples. And the one that gets bent the
least is the
reds. So here you have the rainbow, the
purples and the blues.
And then the one that gets bent the
least is the reds. So red, orange,
just
blue or
purple light. is
most easily
easily
bent. Kind of the technical word.
scattered. Okay. So then if
we think about let's go to the picture to
to
help you show. So imagine we have a distant
star. I'm going to try to fit this in
here so I don't have to start another
page. And the distant star will produce
black body radiation in the visible
range. That means basically all the
colors of the rainbow.
i.e. white light just like just like right
there. Uh and then we have an
interstellar medium. So just think of
medium. Now, in the white light, the
colors that the two colors we want to
focus on is the blue and the
red. And what happens is the red's going
to come through. It's not going to get
bent at all or scattered at all. It's
the one that gets bent the least. And
then the one that gets most scattered is
So because they get
scattered, they scatter out of that beam
of light that comes from the distant
star. And then so here we are on Earth.
And so that light that comes from that
distant star when it passes
passes
between, you know, us and the
interstellar medium, the the hue of that
starlight will shift to the reds because
it's going to scatter out the purples
and the
blues. And that's what we call interstellar
interstellar
reening. Okay. So now I'm just going to
go to the next page and then just kind
So thus
Hence it takes
hue. So an interstellar medium will do
that and that tells us if we watch a
star then all of a sudden we see a shift
in the spectrum of the light and we see
a shift to the reds. it takes on a much
more reddish color. Then we know that an
interstellar gas cloud has passed
between us and that distant star. So
that we know okay somewhere between us
and that star is a is a interstellar
medium gas
cloud. Now you say well is that similar
to what happens on earth? Absolutely. So [Music]
um I don't
earth. All right. So, if you look up,
you go out on the middle of the day, say
it's lunchtime, and there's no clouds,
and you look up into the sky. Don't look
at the sun, but look up into the sky,
away from the sun. What do you see? You
see blue
light. And then people want to know
where the blue light come from. So,
we're going to I'm going to tell you
where it comes from. You already know.
And then, let's say it's evening, early
in the morning, and you look back on
along the horizon towards the sun. The
sun is either setting if it's in the
evening or rising if it's in the
morning. When you look back along the
sun, what you see is those reddish
colors. Same thing. Okay. So, yeah, I
wrote a daytime sky on Earth,
but would explain what happens in the
morning and the night. All right. So,
So, same
same [Music]
[Music] thing
thing
happens on
Earth. And what we mean by that is that
blue. Daytime
sky is [Music]
[Music]
blue. And then either the morning or
Okay. So, let's let's go through and
draw the
picture. And the picture looks like
this. So, give yourself a little space
here. And do that. That's the Earth.
Now, I'm going to put a person
here. And I want to put another person
here. And again, I'm always going to put
my favorite phrase, not to
to
scale. Not to
scale. Oh my gosh.
gosh.
Actually that causes a lot of you know
problems you when you teach
physics astronomy astrophysics it's not the
the
scale the sun is huge earth is small but
in this
picture you don't see it all right sun is
is
above this person so this person it's
noon the sun's directly overhead so this is
is
noon and and this
Depending on where we are on Earth, this
is either dusk or dawn because the sun
is low in the horizon. So we could say dawn
and earth is spinning this way. So
eventually, you know, this will get
later in the day and then this person
will be over here being lunchtime for
them. All right. And so we have an
atmosphere and there's particles in our
atmosphere and those particles scatter
the sunlight just like the particles in
the interstellar
medium scatter the sunlight. So we're
going to focus on one of the particles.
Let's say we got a particle right
here. So I just drew a little blob.
atmosphere. All right. So the sun is a
black body radiator.
range. So, we're going to draw that
light. Again, we're going to focus on
along blue and red.
before, red just going to pass through
hardly not get scattered at all. And the
blue's going to get scattered the
most. So, the blue gets scattered. So,
ping was
blue and the red doesn't get scattered
at all. Ping. Where's the red light?
So that explains you see this person no
matter where they look up in the
sky the predominantly the light that's
going to come in their eye is the blue
light that's been scattered off the
particles in the atmosphere and that's
what paints the daytime sky blue. Now,
contrast that to a person that's either,
you know, in the morning or the evening.
Oh, we could have done in the evening
and then in honor of Led Zeppelin, we'd
evening. If you go on my web page, I've
got the uh song in the evening. It's one
of my favorite songs by Led Zeppelin. In
the evening, In through the Outdoor, the
album cover in Through the Outdoor is
amazing. if you bought. So, back in the
day, we didn't have CDs, you know, there
was no MP3. My my daughters would call
them giant CDs. They're LP LPS
records. They call them giant
CDs. The uh
original album cover for In Through the
Outdoor by Led
Zeppelin was a magical album cover. When
you bought it, it was black and white
the cover. But if you took a sponge with
water and sloshed it over the cover of
the album, then all the colors would
come up
through. So that was now most people
didn't know that. Of course that they'd
have be at a party and drinking beer and
beer would slosh on there and then boom,
they go, "Oh, isn't that awesome?"
So back to the picture then the person
in the morning and the evening as they
look back along the horizon towards the
sun then the blue light has been
scattered out so it takes on a reddish
hue and so that's why when the sun rises
or either sets right above the horizon
you see the light will be red along that
region when you look back towards the
sun. Same sort of deal.
Now, you're probably saying if you go
back to the Pink Floyd, dark side of the
moon picture and you think about the
rainbow, you know,
um the color that gets scattered the
most actually is purple. It's not blue,
it's purple because it's red, orange, yellow,
yellow,
green, blue, and purple.
And you're thinking, "Wait a minute. Why
is the sky blue? Why is it not
purple? It's a logical question. I mean,
I just gave you some physics, and then
somehow I've twisted the physics."
physics."
Well, there's another little issue you
got to keep in mind. We've already
talked about it, but it probably slipped out.
out.
If we look at the the profile of the
sunlight that our sun produces, we go
back to the black body profile.
wavelength. Our sun has a surface
temperature of 5,800 Kelvin, close to
this. The peak is green. Then down
here's the blues. So, if I kind of just
in, down here is the
purple. Then this region is the
blue and then this region is the green.
So, because our sun is roughly
6,000 Kelvin, the black body profile
tells us it produces a lot
more blue
light than it does purple or violet
light. Okay? And so that's why it's just
that the sun doesn't produce much of
this light. Okay? So, it produces a lot
more blue light and that's why this the
skies are are blue.
Now, what we'll see later on, and I'm
getting really off on a tangent here,
but I don't
care. We saw the mass luminosity
relation, and the greater the mass, that
also increases the surface temperature,
which shifts the black body profile. So
if our sun was more massive, then the
profile would shift up over
here, say if it was on the order of, I
don't know,
12,000, 15,000, whatever Kelvin, then
there would be a lot more purple light.
There'd still be that blue light. And
then our sun would this would due to the
fact that it's larger and it would
producing more blue or purple light we
would start to see the skies take on a
purple hue. So if
if
massive sky
sky would
would
It's imagine that's the case. Our sun's
large. Then imagine we have a rainstorm
and it's raining and then the clouds
break. You know what we would
have? Deaf purple
print. Okay. So just a little bit bigger
on the
sun. So there's more purple. And then
imagine it's a rainy day and you're
going to have purple rain. So, you
didn't think purple ring existed? Well,
there it
exists. All right. Now, I'm getting off
on this tangent.
Uh, next topic.
monoxide. So, that's CO.
So remember with the discussion was on
the interstellar medium um which was
um would scatter starlight and you it
take on a reddish shoe and that was one
way that you would could say well
between us and that distant star there's
a giant cloud of interstellar medium.
Here's the other way that we can locate
a vast cloud of of interstellar medium
and that's through this one of the
effects of carbon monoxide. So, um, so another
locate interstellar medium. It's a lot of
writing. Gas
cloud is to Look
monoxide and here's the reason
why. So carbon monoxide is CO. So CO
emits a electromagnetic signal. So I
better do your n EM it's a electromagnetic
electromagnetic
wavelength I remember this sometimes ask
this so the wavelength for carbon
monoxide is
2.6 millm 2.6 six millimeters and that's radio
radio
frequency. So what we do is we use a uh
radio telescope. Those are giant dish
telescopes. And then if we find a region
in the sky where we have a strong
signal, this is supposed to be
strong strong uh signal at a wavelength
of 2.6 millimeters. That means we've
located carbon monoxide. Now, if you
locate carbon monoxide, then in that
same vicinity, you have a heck of a lot
of hydrogen. And the reason is as
follows. Um, for every So, let's see,
what am I at? Page five. for
for
every one carbon monoxide molecule. So CO
molecule
there are about
about
10,000 H2 molecules.
So anytime we look up into the nighttime
sky and we see a signal that has a you
know a strong a region of space that has
a very strong emitter of a very strong
radio signal at 2.6 millimeters we know
we've located large amount of hydrogen
gas H2 molecular hydrogen and that's
where a star can be born. So then we get
to the next topic which is called genes instability.
So
And it is
sufficiently one
one cold,
cold,
two dense has to be both those has to be
gravity will
cause it to
to
collapse. Gravitational forces will
start clumping together and it starts
from the center. Collapse starts in the
center and then works its way out. So,
gravity will cause it to collapse um
region. You have to have both these
cases. It has to be cold and it has to
be dense. If it's not cold, then the uh
kinetic motion of the particles are it
that produces kinetic pressure and that
repulses the effects of gravity warming
to clump it together. And the dense
gives you this. The more matter you have
in a region, the stronger the forces of
gravity. Okay? So you have to have
strong enough gravity. You get gota have
a lot of matter in a small volume of
space so that the gravity can cause it
to collapse. And then once that happens,
that's what we call genans instability.
instability.
Okay? So gravity will cause it to
collapse from the inside to the outer
in the
Period. Next topic. But it it it folds
in here right to what the next sentence.
But I got to put the bullet here so you
can later on going through your notes
protoar. So the mass in the center will increase.
increase. Thus
Thus a
protoar has
formed. Okay.
Now, so you have a gas cloud and in the
center the mass has really started to
build up and because of the nature of
the gravity force it acts along a line
between two particles it will pull all
the matter together to form roughly a
sphere. There'll be some asymmetry from
the sphere due to the angular momentum
but to first order it's a sphere. So
protoar
does not
fusion. It's not hot enough yet. So,
birth of a main sequence start goes
through these three steps. First step is
the protostar forms. The second step is
the pre- main sequence star forms. And
then the third step is
the birth or the formation of the main
sequence. Okay. Um now that's a protoar
form. Note the protoar does not have any
due to
increase in its temperature. Now when I
say glow, that's going to be in
infrared. So glow implies gives off infrared
infrared
radiation. So
Now you've got surrounding the the proto
stars the interstellar medium gravity is
matter is
is pulled
pulled
inward and
mass of the
All right, next
topic. The PMS
star that the PMS star is pre
sequence PMS
star.
Now as the mass builds up. So go back to
the pro store. the mass is building up
and what happens is now the temperature
is is increasing due to the increased
mass. Okay? So the temperature increases
because the gravity is squeezing. You
take any material and squeeze it. It
heats up. I mean that's how your car
works. It takes the atmospheric gas and
it compresses it and that heats it up.
It ignites it. But it is the heat
contained in the compression of that gas
that gives the energy. Okay. Now the
same thing is happening. Gravity is
doing that in the in the prostar. It's
acquiring mass, but it's getting hotter.
Now, eventually, as it gets hotter, what
happens is the electromagnetic
radiation, that's an outward flow of
photons, starts to push back and you get
to a point where it's no longer accreing
any mass. The mass accretion stops and
that's when the pre-main sequence star
flow
forms. Okay. So now you don't have any
more mass buildup. You've now got the
PMS star. And what happens is this
outflow of photon pressure is countering
any effects of gravity wanting to clump
any more mass. And so then the mass is
set in the star when it's at the PMS
stage. But the next thing that starts to
happen is now that it's a PMS star,
gravity takes the mass that is there and
begins to contract it.
So onto my page seven. We're still in
the PMS star, the pre-made sequence. So
seven. So but
gravity now
now begins
begins to
This can
take up
to and it's quite a range between a
million to 10 million to 100 million but
we just say 10 million up to 10 million
years. So we'll write down 10 million
years. Now, as you continue, as gravity
continues to contract, the mass that is
there deep in the core in the center,
the temperature is going to elevate,
going to get hotter and hotter.
Eventually, it's going to get to that
threshold of about 10 million Kelvin.
Boom. That's hot enough for hydrogen to
fuse via the proton proton chain to then
produce the helium and the sunlight. So
uh this can take up to 10 million years but
Kelvin. Okay. And then then you have the main
sequence. So when
when core
reaches a tilda so that means about 10 million
And that means then you go from a PMS to
a main sequence. So PMS then becomes main
sequence. Now when it's main
sequence contraction stops because now
you have a perfect balance. You're in
that state of hydrostatic equilibrium.
You have a perfect balance between
gravity which wants to compress it and
then the kinetic pressure which is due
to electromagnetic radiation the photon
pressure flowing out balances that and
it it sets and stabilizes the size.
forces. Photon pressure which flows
outward is
halts the gravity forces which wants to
cause compression. So I'll just say photon
pressure is exactly equal to gravity.
They work in opposite directions. Of
course photon pressure is an
outward force and gravity is an inward
force but they're in balance.
Hydrostatic equilibrium they're in
balance and then so the size is stable
when it's in sequence.
um
it's in the when it's protoar the mass
is building up. So in the protostar
stage the mass is building up and as the
mass builds up the temperature increases
and then the electromagnetic radiation
the photon pressure increases.
Eventually it no longer accretes mass
and then at that point you transition
from the prostar into the pre-main
sequence PMS star the in the PMS star
you have
contraction so the size is now getting
smaller and smaller we're not adding
mass but what's happening is the size is
getting smaller that's
contraction and then that happens
eventually the the core temperature gets
to 10 million Kelvin nuclear fusion begins
And then you have a tremendous release
of photons because you have that you
know you go back to the proton proton
chain you have all those gammaray
photons that are flying out of there and
those gammaray photons then generate the
photon pressure which halts any further
contraction. That's the main that's when
your main
sequence. Okay. So I want to draw some
pictures just to tie together these three
three
stages. So I'm going to go to page
eight. The picture for the protoar looks like
like
this. So you draw interstellar medium
and then in the center here draw a
circle and then label that circle protoar.
Now what's happening on the protostar is the
mass from the interstellar medium is
being pulled onto the
protostar. So we have mass accretion
which means the mass of the protostar is increasing.
increasing.
So right here these arrows. So this is
am and these arrows here represent the
matter flowing in. So mass
mass
Now, it does
glow and give off, you know, weak infrared
infrared
radiation gives off. Geez. Gives off.
Folks, go back to page six. Gives off. I
mean, I know I've got not a million, but
let's say thousands of spelling errors
because I don't look at my notes. I just
write. I should look at them. even in my
not so there's there's words that are
misspelled. All right. Gives off
infrared light. All right. Here we
go. So that's the protoar. Now we're
going to do PMS star. So in the PMS
circle. But now these rays coming off
here are really
strong. That's the electromagnetic
radiation. And now there's no matter flowing
flowing
inward. So there's no
no mass
on to the PMS. Oh yeah, label this
PMS. Okay. But what's the PMS doing?
It's contracting.
So draw little arrows like this. And
that's the force of gravity is causing
the PMS star to
contract. And actually as this radiation
gets stronger and stronger, it starts to
blast away. The interstellar medium
actually gets blasted away. So it
actually goes in the opposite direction
now because the photon pressure is just
so great. It's so what we do. So these
contraction. So the PMS star is getting smaller.
Okay. So protostar
protostar mass
increases. Okay. Then in the PMS the
mass is set but the size
is
set but size
decreases. And then we're at the main
sequence. So main sequence page nine draw
So this is MS mean sequence and then you
have the forces of gravity but the it's
now stable. Okay. So you have the of
course the mass is already stable. It's
stable when it's PMS but now the size is
stable. So in the MS star
size is now
now
set or another word or
stable. And we go back to that we're in
hydrostatic equilibrium. have a balance.
You took it didn't focus on any
mass region in the main sequence star
and there's gravity wants to pull it in
but the gammaray photons want to push it
out and so the forces are in balance. So
size is now set or stable and of course
we have sunlight we have nuclear fusion
core. So you have the conversion of the
hydrogen into the helium and the
byproduct is the gamma rays and the
gammaray photons is the sunlight. These
rays are sunlight and you get the entire
spectrum. You get x-rays, you get
ultraviolet, visible infrared, you get
them all. And then we're on Earth and we
go, "Wait a minute. Are we getting
beamed by X-rays and ultraviolet?" No.
Thankfully, our atmosphere saves our our
our bacon on that. Okay. All right. Um,
so couple of things that just want to
highlight here. Getting down to the end
more
massive a PMS
is star because it's pre-main sequence
star. So the more massive a PMS star
is, the more quickly it becomes main
sequence. And that's just because all
those processes are sped up due to the
mass. The forces of gravity that go
ahead and increase the core temperature
more quickly. So the more massive a PMS
quickly the more
becomes main
sequence. MS is main sequence.
sequence.
Now, now there's this other thing that
can that can happen and it's happened in
our own solar system. So, we should
probably talk about that. So, let's do
bullet here.
dwarfs. Brown
dwarfs. So, you there is a situation where
where
um you can get to, you know, the PMS
stage and there's just never enough mass
to get the core temperature to reach
that 10 million Kelvin. And so that it
just stays in that PMS stage. And
another word for a PMS star, a long-term
PMS star is a brown dwarf. So basically
if the PMS
temperature never gets
clo never gets
Kelvin really and it just sits in that
age. So you basically have a gas giant
hydrogen and helium spherical globe that
just doesn't have enough mass so that
you get a core temperature to 10 million
Kelvin. That's a brown dwarf. That's
dwarfs. And in our own solar system, the
classic example is
Jupiter. So that you can call Jupiter a
planet or you can call it a PMS star,
you can call it a brown
it. All right. Then if we go the other
way, if you go back to the HR diagram
and you think and you we look at our we got
got
our data on all the stars and what and
we you know we look at the mass and we
get the mass through the through the
binaries um we actually see an upper
limit on main sequence masses and that
upper limit is about 100 times the mass
of the sun. So let me go to the next
We do not
not often
often
see main sequence
above 100
times the mass of our sun.
And the reason is is what happens is
with those high masses if they you know
they start out high mass and then be
when the nuclear fusion kicks in when
the proton proton chain kicks in you
have a tremendous release of those
gammaray photons and they actually blast
away the outer region of the star and
that represents mass loss and so it the
mass drops down into that somewhere
under the hund.
So I don't know you would have
so so 100 times so um you would have a
So
that the mass
below the
sun. Okay, next topic. We have two more
and we're done. So next
topic. So now the star once it's main
sequence boom it shows up on the main
sequence line on our HR
diagram. And then the question is so
when it's on main sequence the line
there all it's doing all it's doing
what's doing is pretty amazing. I
shouldn't say the only thing that is all
it's doing it's converting the hydrogen
into the helium. And the question is how
long does that last? Well, it's mass
dependent. So, bullet is um main
So and and it and just if you think
about the more massive the star is the
more quickly it's going going to convert
the hydrogen into the helium because
temperature is going to be greater which
is going to increase the the rate of the
proton proton chain which increases the
conversion rate. So eventually it's
going to consume all the hydrogen. It'll
all be converted into helium and then it
leaves the main sequence line. Okay,
that's then we start the death process
of the star. So main sequence uh
uh uh
time on
line is
The more
massive, let's put it in quotation. The more
life. So just put together a little
table here guys and we'll get this one
more thing and we'll be done. All right.
So the table is is the following. So
mass of this star. So we're talking
about stars on main sequence and these
will be in units of the mass of the
lifetime. So this is how long it spins
And this will be in
years. Oh gosh. All right. There we
go. So, I want to start at kind of the upper
upper
uh edge, upper limit, and then work
down. So, let's look at a star that's 25
times more massive than our sun.
It spends its life on main sequence only
8 million
years. Now I know I said only 8 million
and you guys are oh 8 million is a long
it is. It is 8 million is a long time
relative to humans
but cosmically speaking or galactically
speaking 8 million is like a
blink. Okay let's do 15. So now we're
talking about stars that are 15 larger
than our sun. So they will about double.
So it's 15
million. Now you really start to see it
jump up. So one and that's our
sun. Total lifetime total time to
convert the hydrogen into helium 10
billion. And then something that's half
the size of our sun, say
0.5, 200
billion. And that gets us to our final
topic of the day.
bullet,
red dwarf. Okay, now we had brown dwarf.
We talked about white
dwarfs. Oh my gosh. Oh, they're all
different. A white dwarf. Talked about
those. We didn't go in the details, but
you know where they are on the HR
diagram. Then I just we just did the brown
brown
dwarfs. Page
nine. Now we're doing red
dwarf. These are low mass main sequence
stars. Low
mass main sequence
stars. And the reason is is they're
small and they have a low surface
temperature. So the dominant color they
give us is red. And that's where that
word comes from. Red dwarf. Low mass
main sequence
Okay. And usually we say if it's on the
order of a tenth of the mass of the sun.
So usually so just around
around
say 10% mass of the sun. That and lower.
That's a red dwarf. Um they'll have a
very low surface temperature. you know,
somewhere 3,000 or under, you know, under
3,000 Kelvin on the surface
surface
and very extreme on their lifetime. In
fact, you'll see that on the order of
live for around
500 billion years. Now, just to put the
billion years. Now, just to put the universe is only 14 billion years. You
universe is only 14 billion years. You I'm I'm giving you a piece of
I'm I'm giving you a piece of information that we're going to learn
information that we're going to learn later on. So, just universe itself is
later on. So, just universe itself is only
14 14. So, these red dwarfs
Nobody's seen them die yet. I mean, that's that's they're going to live a
that's that's they're going to live a long time. Oh my gosh. All right,
long time. Oh my gosh. All right, guys. We are done for today and pick it
guys. We are done for today and pick it up next time.
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