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  • more particles join making the protostar bigger
  • when tempreature and pressure are high enough, hydrogen nuclei fuse in fusion to create helium nuclei
  • Fusion gives out lots of energy and keeps the core hot creating a main sequence star
  • the force of gravity and the force of he fusion balance
  • when hydrogen runs out there is no more fusion so forces are not equal and gravity pulls the star into a small ball. The process can happen again but hydrogen fusion creates elements up to irons weight
  • a small star becomes a red giant and a big star becomes a super red giant
  • Super red giants shine brightly due to fusion happening more and eventually they explode in a supernova. big super red giants condense into a hot core. Very big super red giants collapse in itself causing a black hole.
  • Anything which orbits a planet is a satellite
  • asteroids are made of rock and metal
  • comets are made of ice and dust
  • the smaller the orbit of an object, the faster the orbit
  • Orbit is the curved pathway of one celestial object or spacecraft around another celestial object.
  • The futher away a galaxy, the faster its moving
  • red giants quickly become unstable and they get rid of their outer layers leaving a hot dense core which is a white dwarf. This then gets cooler and darker forming a black dwarf which doesn't have enough energy to emit light
  • gravity pulls the nebula together to form a protostar
  • a cloud of dust and gas is a nebula
  • When the universe expands, the space between galaxies is stretched not because galaxies are moving
  • gravity squeezes the protostar making it denser meaning there are more collissions increasing tempreature