A red dwarf.
A white dwarf.
Below about 0.08 solar masses an object will not be able to ignite nuclear fusion. There may be small amounts of deuterium fusion, but it is not sustainable. Objects between 0.08 solar masses and about 13 Jupiter masses are called brown dwarfs.
A star that was 150 solar masses would spend the main part of its life as a main sequence star before collapsing into a white dwarf. A stars mass determines the life expectancy as well as its probable cause of death.
Objects above this mass fuse hydrogen too rapidly and cannot stay together.
A star with a mass of 2solar masses, 2times the mass of the sun, would have a main-sequence stage of half the life of a star with the mass of our sun. More massive stars die faster, less massive stars live longer and therefore have longer main-sequence stages.
A white dwarf.
It is a main sequence star of class M. It can range in size form 0.08 to 0.45 solar masses, and a radius of less than 0.7 times that of the sun. A majority (76%) of main sequence stars belong to this category.
Sirius consists of two stars.Sirius A is a main-sequence star with about two solar masses.Sirius B is a white dwarf with about one solar mass. During its main-sequence, it's estimated to have been around five solar masses.
Below about 0.08 solar masses an object will not be able to ignite nuclear fusion. There may be small amounts of deuterium fusion, but it is not sustainable. Objects between 0.08 solar masses and about 13 Jupiter masses are called brown dwarfs.
A star that was 150 solar masses would spend the main part of its life as a main sequence star before collapsing into a white dwarf. A stars mass determines the life expectancy as well as its probable cause of death.
Objects above this mass fuse hydrogen too rapidly and cannot stay together.
The Main Sequence
high masses low tempature
Polaris - the current North star is a multiple star system., consisting of the main star and smaller companions. The main star Alpha Ursae Minoris is a bright star, a 6 solar mass supergiant and it is a main sequence star. Orbiting very close to this main star is a white dwarf of roughly 1.5 solar masses. This is not a main sequence star. Orbiting further out is the third companion, a 1.39 solar mass star. This is a main sequence star. There are also two more distant components (α UMi C and α UMi D) - Polaris is thought to be part of an open cluster - I do not know if these later two stars are main sequence or not.
A star with a mass of 2solar masses, 2times the mass of the sun, would have a main-sequence stage of half the life of a star with the mass of our sun. More massive stars die faster, less massive stars live longer and therefore have longer main-sequence stages.
There is one star in our solar system: the sun. It is a yellow main sequence star.
The most massive type of main sequence star on the HR diagram would be indicated by the main sequence area at the top left of the HR diagram, which would be blue or violet in color. Zeta Puppis is an example of such a star. It comes in at 40 solar masses. It is classified as a type "O" star.