Will stars with less mass last longer than stars with bigger mass?

Answer 1

Smaller stars burn less fuel and live longer. A star like ours can exist for more than ten times the size of a star 50 times it's size.

The bigger the star, the stronger it's gravitational pull, and therefore the more intense the nuclear fusion at it's core. Massive stars have a tendency to explode long before they get to be the size of our sun, which has to do with how black holes form, sometimes they collapse back in on themselves.

Answer 2

At higher masses, the star's gravitation will be greater, resulting in more pressure and a higher temperature. This will increase the rate of nuclear fusion - and thus make the star use up its fuel faster.

Answer 3

The life cycle depends on its mass because of the way a star operates. Stars are basically factories, they are formed from clouds of dust gasses and slowly spin and contract creating lots of heat. The gasses are usually mostly hydrogen and helium. When the gasses reach a temperature of 10,000,000 kelvin, hydrogen nuclear fusion can take place. The hydrogen gets fused onto helium, and other elements begin to form from fusion such as carbon, neon, silica, oxygen are some examples, and finally iron which from what we know cannot fuse into a heavier element. The more mass a star has the hotter it will be the more efficient and faster the conversion process will be. Soon the center of the star will begin to fill with the heavier elements, usually the iron, and the hydrogen will be pushed further and further away from the hot center that it loves so much. The fuel the star started out with will soon be fused into other elements until the process slows. The star will begin to expand turning into a red giant and shrinking into a dwarf star or if massive enough going supernova. A very massive star may "live" 10 million years where as a smaller star say our sun can live to a ripe old age of 10 billion years. A simple way to look at it is this, a top-fuel dragster (very large star) consumes about 24 GALLONs in 1mile where as a Honda sedan (small star) consumes 1gallon every 24miles. I hope this answers your question.
The greater the mass the shorter its life because it burns its fuel faster
the more mass a star has the shorter its life is

Answer 4

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall!"

It is uncommon to invoke the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in a discussion of astronomical physics, but she was precisely on target with her poem "First Fig".

My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night;

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-

It gives a lovely light.

The larger a star is, the faster it burns and the more quickly it evolves. Large stars die sooner and more spectacularly than small stars. Small, dim red dwarf stars like Proxima Centauri will probably survive for a trillion years, while red supergiants like Betelgeuse are old and ready to go supernova after only 100 million years.

Answer 5

Low mass stars tend to live to a ripe old age. They convert their supply of hydrogen very slowly. Large mass stars can have a long life, but tend to live a shorter time. Very large mass stars, as a general rule, will have a short life. Reason: The larger a stars mass, the more furiously it converts it's fuel. Hence, the quicker it comes to it's end.

Answer 6

Yes, and depending on the mass, the difference can be quite dramatic. Stars that are only a few tens of times more massive than our Sun may last just a few million years, while our Sun will have a total lifetime of about 10 billion years, and red dwarves (with a mass of at least 0.075 solar masses) can last trillions of years.

Answer 7

Generally the smaller the mass the longer the star lives. Red Dwarfs the smallest stars often also have the longest lives.

Answer 8

The opposite. The larger a star is the shorter it's life sequence is.

Answer 9

More mass causes the star's gravity to be stronger. This will cause greater pressure and temperature, making the nuclear reactions faster - the star will use up its fuel much faster.

Answer 10

A star with less mass has a longer life span. More massive stars get hotter, shine brighter, and spend their fuel much faster.