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BookmarkIn astronomy, stellar evolution is the sequence of changes that a star undergoes during its lifetime; the hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of years during which it emits light and heat.
Over the course of that time, the star will change radically..
For more information about the topic Stellar evolution, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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