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YELLOW DWARFS• Color: Appear yellow
• Gases Burned: Fuse H, He to generate into light
• Size : Small 80-100% mass of the sun
• Surface Temperature: 5300-6000 K
• Area: Main sequence stars
• Death/Next Stage: Expand into a red giant
• Lifetime: Generally will last for 10 billion years
RED DWARF• Color: Appears red
• Gases Burned: H used to the last drop
• Size : Small 7.5% - 100% size of the sun
• Surface Temperature: Cool, under 4,000K
• Area: Main sequence stars
• Death/Next Stage: Fade to brown stars
• Lifetime: Generally will last for 10 trillion years
RED GIANT• Color: Appears orange
• Gases Burned: 1st H, then after swell uses heavier elements
• Size : 100 times bigger then original
• Surface Temperature: Becomes cooler, under 6500 K
• Area: Evolve from main sequence stars
• Death/Next Stage: Collapse to white dwarf after fuel is gone
• Lifetime: Generally will last for hundreds of billions of years
BLUE GIANT• Color: Appears blue
• Gases Burned: He
• Size : Huge
• Surface Temperature: Hot, 20,000 K
• Area: Post main sequence stars
• Death/Next Stage: Expand and cool to red giants or expand into supergiants
• Lifetime: Short, tens or hundreds of million years
SUPERGIANT• Color: Red or Blue
• Gases Burned: Carbon
• Size : Largest known 10-70 Suns
• Surface Temperature: Red 3500-4500 K, Blue 20,000-50,000
• Area: Post Main Sequence
• Death/Next Stage: Supernova to a black hole
• Lifetime: Short, 30 million- few thousand years
WHITE DWARF• Color: Appears white
• Gases Burned: He
• Size : Small, 60% of original mass into size of the Earth
• Surface Temperature: Hot, but will slowly cool down
• Area: Post Red Giant
• Death/Next Stage: Cold dark black dwarf
• Lifetime: Long, Age of the Universe
BROWN DWARF• Color: Can’t visibly see
• Gases Burned: No gases
• Size : small, .07 solar masses
• Surface Temperature: Cool
• Area: Unknown
• Death/Next Stage: Unknown
• Lifetime: Unknown
NEUTRON STAR• Color: Appears white
• Gases Burned: Stellar remnant, neutrons, small amount of H
• Size : Small, 5-10 miles
• Surface Temperature: Extremely hot, 1 million degrees but surface cools
• Area: Post stars
• Death/Next Stage: Dissolves, slowly stops spinning
• Lifetime: 10 billion years