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The life cycle for a particular star depends on its size. The diagram shows the life cycles of stars that are: about the same size as the Sun; far greater than the Sun in size. All stars begin ...

Our closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, shines brightly in this Hubble image. Just one-eighth the mass of the Sun, Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf.

Most stars are main sequence stars that fuse hydrogen to form helium in their cores - including our sun.

The shell originates from a thermal pulse during which the star underwent a brief period of increased mass loss3,4.

Widespread extinctions of land-dwelling animals – which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds – follow a cycle of about 27 million years.

Meet the blue stars, the hottest stars in the galaxy, which live fast and die young.

A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of their life cycle.

For the first time, researchers have pieced together the complete life cycle of these legendary birds. Dodos were large flightless pigeons that lived on the island of Mauritius, often in swamps ...