Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Hertzsprung-Russel (h-r) diagram? What attribute is listed on each axis. Compare stars in the upper left of the main sequence vs. the stars at the lower right. Which ones are larger? Which is more luminous, more massive, and hotter?

2. Summarize the complete lifecycle of stars from birth to death. Describe how the lifespan of a low mass star compares to a high mass star. Which lives longer and why?

3. What kind of stars eventually become white dwarfs? What kind eventually become supernovae? Where is the sun in its lifecycle? What will be the ultimate fate of the sun?

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1 The Hertzsprung Russell diagram commonly denoted as HR diagram is a geographical instrument or tool used by astronomers to categorize stars accordin... View the full answer