Friday, May 14, 2010

Life Cycle of Stars

Once upon a time, there a dust particle all alone in outer space. She was very lonely and wanted to make friends. As she was traveling along one day, she bumped into another particle who was lonely just like her. They immidiately became friends, and decided to look for others like them. Eventually they came to a colony of dust particles. Once the two friends joined the colony, it started to have gravitational force. It began to move slowly in a circle as they were all celebrating their gravitational force accomplishment. Soon after, the outer layer of the colony collapsed from so much partying. The colony took time to cool off after all of the celebrating. However, soon after, things heated up again and this time they spun even faster! The celebration became a dance to very fast paced music. Once the dance floor temperature reached 27,000,000 degrees, nuclear fusion began. The hydrogen couples danced together (converts) to form helium. After a large amount of the helium couples had formed, the colonly, specifically the center, became a star. The star was so happy about the transformation, it began to shine brightly giving off UV light and other radiation. The star hosts a party and invites nearby objects from the Universe. The star becomes best friends with some planets and they form a solar system. This is a long lasting friendship, for it is the most stable and longest part of the star's life. As almost all of the single Hydrogen dancers are fused into Helium couples, the dance was coming to come to an end. The star began to take deep breaths so the outer layers moved outward and the core contracted to try to catch its breath from all of the dancing, when all of a sudden it exploded!!! The core of the dying star and dead dance floor becomes smaller and smaller untill another fusion occurs and the shrinking stops. The explosion caused the outer layers to scatter away from the dance floor, but because of the star's large mass, the remaining layers come closer together, eventually forming a black hole. That is the story of a star's life with a disco twist to it.

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