Both the sun and a red dwarf are main sequence stars that produce heat and light by fusing hydrogen in their core and turning it into helium.
1. The sun is bigger then the red dwarf.2. The sun produces bright electric-like light unlike the red dwarfs dim elctric-like light.3. The sun is highly recognized in our solar system, but the red dwarf is not.
Only a red dwarf star is red. Our Sun is a yellow dwarf. A red dwarf is red because it is cool, and cool colours are red whereas hot colours are white and blue.
The sun is warmer than red stars. Red stars are cooler in temperature compared to the sun, which is classified as a yellow dwarf star.
No, the sun will eventually evolve into a red giant before shedding its outer layers and becoming a white dwarf. The white dwarf stage marks the end of its evolution, where it will slowly cool down over billions of years.
The sun is estimated to reach a size where it engulfs Mercury and Venus, likely extending out to Earth's orbit. This expansion is expected to happen in around 5 billion years as the sun evolves into a red giant before eventually collapsing into a white dwarf.
A red dwarf star is smaller, dimmer, and cooler than our sun.
1. The sun is bigger then the red dwarf.2. The sun produces bright electric-like light unlike the red dwarfs dim elctric-like light.3. The sun is highly recognized in our solar system, but the red dwarf is not.
White Dwarf, Sun, Red Giant, Supernova
Proxima Centauri is a "red dwarf" star. Its composition is similar to the Sun, but with less mass and it's much smaller than the Sun. It has lower core and surface temperatures. The Sun will eventually start to use helium as well as hydrogen as its fuel It will become a red giant then a white dwarf. Red dwarfs don't have a high enough core temperature to use helium as as "fuel". Proxima Centauri will not become a red giant. It will go straight to the white dwarf stage, once it has used up its hydrogen "fuel".
Proxima centauri is the closest red dwarf star and is the closest star
Yes. A red dwarf
No. Alpha Centauri is a three-star system consisting of two stars similar in size to the sun and a red dwarf.
The sun will be a red giant for about 1 billion years before transitioning into a white dwarf.
Only a red dwarf star is red. Our Sun is a yellow dwarf. A red dwarf is red because it is cool, and cool colours are red whereas hot colours are white and blue.
Red dwarf stars are the commonest stars, at least in the region of space around our Sun.
Like all main sequence stars, a red dwarf is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
It can range from 0.25 that of the Sun in a red dwarf to over 2,000 times that of the Sun in a hypergiant.