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4. Evolution of a star

1. Life of single stars

1.1 Sunlike stars

  1. An interstellar cloud
  2. Collapsing cloud fragment
  3. Fragmentation stops
  4. Becoming a protostar
  5. Evolving as a protostar
  6. A newborn star
  7. In the main sequence
  8. The subgiant branch
  9. The red-giant branch
  10. Helium flash
  11. Back to the giant branch
  12. A planetary nebula
  13. A white dwarf

1.2 Massive stars

1.3 Star clusters

1.4 Variable stars

2. Scaling laws

3. Compact stars

3.1 White dwarfs

3.2 Neutron stars

3.3 Black holes

4. Life of binary stars