Which of the following statements is wrong? A. A main-sequence star is cooler and brighter than it was as a protostar.  B. Carbon fusion occurs in high-mass stars but not in low-mass stars because the cores of low-mass stars never contain significant amounts of carbon. C. when a main-sequence star exhausts its core hydrogen fuel supply, the core shrinks while the rest of the star expands. D. After a supernova explosion, the remains of the stellar core will be either a neutron star or a black hole.

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Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. A main-sequence star is cooler and brighter than it was as a protostar. 

B. Carbon fusion occurs in high-mass stars but not in low-mass stars because the cores of low-mass stars never contain significant amounts of carbon.

C. when a main-sequence star exhausts its core hydrogen fuel supply, the core shrinks while the rest of the star expands.

D. After a supernova explosion, the remains of the stellar core will be either a neutron star or a black hole. 

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