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What changes when a star becomes a red giant?

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When a red giant reaches the end of its life and is unable to fuse any more elements, the core cools and collapses due to gravity. The outer layers are ejected and become a planetary nebula, and all that remains of the star is an extremely dense core, which is called a white dwarf.

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Depending upon the mass of the star before turning into supergiants;

1. Supergiant stars (1.5 - 3 times the mass of the Sun) will eventually supernova and degenerate into a Neutron Star. (see Supernova and Neutron star on wikipedia)

2. Supergiant stars (3+ times the mass of the Sun) will supernova, and the resulting collapsing of gravity at the star's location will form a black hole. (see Hypernova on wikipedia)

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A red giant is a star that is in its last stages of stellar evolution before it dies off. A star begins to run out of its fuel such as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen before going into the final stages.

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it looks big and red

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Despite it's redish look, it's size is also another contribute to it's name. The reason why it is red is because it has cooled and the cooler a star is, the reder it is in color. It sounds ridiculous, but that is the way space has been working.

Other then that, a red giant consisted of Helium, Hydrogen, and non-fusing hydrogen that in a way acts as dead weight.

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Stars, like our sun, will one day die. Depending on how big they are, a multitude of things could happen. For a star to become a Red Giant, however, it would have to be a medium-sized star, again like our sun.When a medium-sized star starts to die, it's outer layers will expand, making it a Red Giant. In the case of our sun, when that happens, in approximately 6.4 billion years, it's outerslayers will reach as far as Jupiter, killing all life on planet Earth. After that, the outer layers will dissipate, leaving only the core, then called a white dwarf. Once the white dwarf runs out of fuel, it will cease to glow, finnaly dying and becoming a black dwarf.

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· star uses up H in core and begins fusing He >C

· H fusion begins in area around core causing outer part of star to swell

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it is formed when the star uses up all its fuels and it swells up.

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In about 4-5bllion years.

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