Elements are often referred to as the building blocks of matter, combining to create not only life but everything surrounding it. However, these elements are not created on their own. They are forged deep within the cores of massive balls of gas dispersed throughout the universe and blasted through the vastness of space in their immense, self destructive explosions. Stars, through their violent birth to their even more violent death, manufacture the elements necessary for life. These giant balls of superheated gas begin their lives as nebulas, slowly evolving into the magnificent lights we see burning in the night sky and eventually dying by gravity, the same force that helped create them, scattering the plethora of elements they created …show more content…
The longevity of a star’s life depends highly on its mass. Bigger stars burn through hydrogen more quickly, using up their fuel in a shorter amount of time and smaller stars burn through their fuel more more slowly, lasting longer, and therefore surviving for sometimes trillions of years. After the core runs out of hydrogen to burn, the fusion inside this “gigantic hydrogen bomb” slows down and begins to move to the outer layers of the star, heating up the surface, causing the star to expand, creating a red giant. During this time, the unstable, collapsing core heats up and begins fusing the helium atoms into carbon and carbon into oxygen, continuing the process and producing heavier elements and releasing more energy.After the core runs out of this fuel, there is no energy to fight against gravity and it collapses into a dense white dwarf, cooling over billions of years and eventually falling apart. Larger stars, however, undergo a different demise. These stars become massive red giants referred to as supergiants, producing carbon until “carbon builds up so much that their core collapses under the weight” (DK). The extreme heat produced by the allows supergiants to continue the fusion process with heavier elements, such as magnesium, sulfur, and silicon until they produce iron, an element that is lethal to the biggest of stars.
Elements with atomic numbers greater than iron’s atomic number form during the formation of a supernovae, also known as a mini-bang. The process begins when a massive star has depleted its supply of magnesium and silicon, and only has a bare iron ore remaining. Now, the star no longer has the energy to maintain its immense mass against the force of gravity, and as a result, the entire star collapses. This process fuses together electrons and protons in the core, which forms neutrons. After neutrons build up in the ore, the star recoils in the form of an explosion. During the explosion, the neutrons attach to iron atoms in the ore, and begin converting back to protons and electrons. As a result, iron atoms are able to become different elements with greater atomic numbers.
According to Carolyn Ruth, author of “Where Do Chemical Elements Come From,” chemical elements came from the explosion of stars, also known as supernovas. In her article, Carolyn states that a newborn star is mainly composed of the first element on the periodic table, Hydrogen. Due to the high pressure within the star, a fusion process begins that fuses two protons and two neutrons together to form the second element, Helium. These fusion processes continue to form elements that weigh less than Iron. Once the star creates all elements up to Iron, the star eventually collapses and explodes. One article that agrees with Carolyn’s theory is “The Origin of the Elements and the Life of A Star”. According to this article, stars produce nuclear reactions
When stars died, chemicals other than hydrogen and helium formed, which led to the next level of complexity—Heavier Chemical Element. Most stars spent about 90% of their life over billions of years on during protons and hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei. When they run out of fuel, the furnace at the center of the star stopped supporting the star, and gravity took over. Small stars did not have much pressure at the center. They burned hydrogen slowly over billions of years at relatively low temperatures. When they died, they would slowly fade away. However, great stars had so much mass that they can create enormous pressures and temperature, and when the giant stars ran out of hydrogen, the temperature got cranked up even higher, which led the star to collapse. The high temperature that the collapse caused was able to make helium nuclei fuse into nuclei of carbon. When a star used up its helium, it collapsed again, and the cycle started over. The star heated up and began to fuse carbon to form
- The gravitational force become off balance and then when they become balance its bigger in size.
The Sun is Also A Star tells the story of Natasha and Daniel, two teens in New York City. Natasha is Jamaican and moved to the US illegally when she was eight years old. Daniel is a first generation American citizen but his parents moved to New York from Korea a few years before he was born. They meet in a record store and end up spending the day together wandering the city. They are reserved at first but eventually establish a great connection and learn so much from each other as they discuss their belief (or lack thereof) in god, fate, and destiny. The problem is that Natasha’s family is being deported back to Jamaica that night. Daniel teaches Natasha that sometimes things happen for a reason and Natasha teaches Daniel that sometimes, life is unfair. The book addresses 21st century themes through the characters narratives and issues, including immigration, the American Dream, and modern views on God and fate.
Is love chosen or is it fate? In the Sun Is Also A Star, Daniel and Natasha coincidentally meet in a record store. Daniel is a guy who believes in Fate and wants to be a poet, Natasha is the complete opposite and tries to justify everything with science, she believes in chance. In the book, The Sun Is Also a Star, a central theme that is developed throughout the story is Chance vs Fate. Natasha and Daniel have beliefs that contradict each other.
Stage 10 in the death of a star, you would start to think that with the core collapsing, that the star would just collapse and break apart. However, this only happens with starts under ¼ Sol and takes about a hundred billion years at the least. However, a star like our Sun, doesn’t die quite that quickly. Even under all the collapsing and expanding as a Red Giant, the core starts to burn helium in its core. Once this burning is about 100 million Kelvin and the density in the core has risen to the right level, the helium begins to fuse with carbon, which causes the reactor in the centre of the star to
In the video of " We are stardust harvesting starlight" by Kraus, Tyson, and Sagan, it was mentioned that every atom present in the universe came from the explosion of a star. The collapse explosion of an unstable heavy star introduced the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen which is required to form life on earth. A statement "Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here" meant that instead of looking at the religious point of view of how living forms arrived on earth, it is essential that the scientific perspective of the arrival of life forms is considered. Stars are exploded due to factors of pressure and temperature in order to release necessary elements which are the building blocks of life. The elements are a part
Stars are composed of hydrogen gas and dust. Stars owe their existence to the force of gravity. Stars are created from the thinly spread atoms of dust and gas that swirl throughout space. The atoms clump together into dense clouds that eventually collapse under their own gravity. Other forces counteract the gravity. The dust and cloud grows
Your book, The Sun is Also a Star, changed me in ways I never could have imagined a book could do. The book’s message that what is supposed to happen will happen, opened my eyes, calmed my nerves, and convinced me to stop stressing over every detail because it will all turn out okay. It’s evident throughout the story that Natasha and Daniel are meant to be together, yet all signs say that it’s impossible. They tried really hard to make a relationship happen, but it still seemed like it would not work. The two ended up going their separate ways and living their own lives apart from each for 10 years.
The Sun is Also a Star: Book Review The Sun is Also a Star is a book about fate. But it’s not the cheesy version where some amazing thing suddenly happens and there’s a perfect happy ending. The book it's not about that because that’s not realistic. That type of stuff doesn’t really happen in real life.
Just like humans, everything in the universe has a purpose. From the beginning of the moment anything is created into existence it grows and fulfills its purpose. Stars are no different. Every day, stars are created by gravity which pulls the star together, the star builds up heat and pressure, and then fusion begins. The process in which a star goes through is known as a star's life cycle. All stars start at the basic nebula phase, change to a protostar, and go on to the main sequence star phase. After the main sequence star phase, there are two different divisions that are determined by the mass of the star. If a star is known as a low-mass star it will have different life changes than a high-mass star. A low-mass star will become a
The changes that occur during a star 's life are called stellar evolution. The mass of a star determines the ultimate fate of a star. Stars that are more massive burn their fuel quicker and lead shorter lives. Because stars shine, they must change. The energy they lose by emitting light must come from the matter of which the star is made. This will lead to a change in its composition. Stars are formed from the material between stars, shine until they exhaust their fuel, and then die a predictable death based upon their initial mass.
"Marco," Star starts, her excitement beginning to dim as they walked on. "I 'm sorry, for this I mean." She gave a glance at the back of Marco 's head, stepping quickly to reach his side. "I never wanted this to turn out so badly."
Indecent bodies like the sun. Stars are made up of big exploding balls of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. The sun is similarly a star made up of huge amounts of hydrogen, undergoing a continuous nuclear reaction like a hydrogen bomb. Stars come about when vast clouds of hydrogen, helium and dust contract and collapse due to gravity. The clouds came from astronomical plasma from “The Big Bang”, but the dust comes from the supernovae of other stars.