cosmicpower: invaderxan: Internal structure of a red giant star. Increased radiation pressure from that shell around the star’s core is what’s thought to make stars expand into red giants. Red giants have hotter cores which power higher rates of fusion, causing red giants to have hundreds to thousands of times the luminosity they had as main sequence stars. I miss the Planetarium course SO MUCH

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Internal structure of a red giant star. Increased radiation pressure from that shell around the star’s core is what’s thought to make stars expand into red giants. Red giants have hotter cores which power higher rates of fusion, causing red giants to have hundreds to thousands of times the luminosity they had as main sequence stars.

I miss the Planetarium course SO MUCH

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