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Mapping Stellar Lives and fates

D ifferent Stars birth, shine, and die differently. Hello and welcome to our blog called CosmicWisdom, where we talk about the Cosmos and its different aspects. In today's post, we will be exploring the lives of different kinds of stars and their destinies, in brief. Don't be disappointed if you didn't get sufficient information because this is a post that connects several of the stellar life posts that have been published or will be published in the future. Without wasting any time, let's begin. Introduction: Have you ever thought, when scientists say this star is going to die as a supernova or become a white dwarf, or it lies in this particular phase of its life, how they get those things? If you ask your grandpa, " Do you know when the sun was born? He might say My great-grandpa also asked this question to his grandparents; they will say we see the sun and moon as they look now. Scientists ar...

War of Winds: The Cosmic Battlefield

N othing in the universe is safe from these deadly particles; these are far deadlier than any cosmic weapon we've discussed in CosmicWisdom because they don't grant swift death; they torment everything, whether it's rock, gas, planet, asteroid, star, white dwarf, or neutron star. Hello and welcome to our blog, where we discuss Cosmos and its various aspects like never before. Introduction: Have you heard about space weather or solar wind? Yeah, in this post, we'll see them deeply. These particles are an indication of galactic-level warfare, that everything in the cosmos is fighting to survive. Let's see why we call them wind because it's not literally a wind gust as you feel on Earth. As you know, our Earth is surrounded by some gases like Nitrogen, oxygen, and ozone; all these are assemblies of particles. On Earth, these are gases because our planet doesn't have enough gravity, temperatu...