什么是造父变星，它为什么重要？
What are Cepheid variables and why are they important?
造父变星是一类亮度会周期性变化的恒星，其脉动周期越长，本身真实亮度就越高，这就是周光关系。天文学家通过测量周期算出它的真实亮度，再与看起来多亮比较，就能推出距离。哈勃当年正是用造父变星证明仙女座星系在银河系之外，从而确立了星系的存在。
Cepheid variables are stars whose brightness pulses periodically, and the longer the pulsation period, the greater their true luminosity, a relation called the period-luminosity law. Astronomers use the period to find the true brightness, then compare it with apparent brightness to derive distance. Hubble used Cepheids to prove the Andromeda Galaxy lies beyond the Milky Way, establishing that other galaxies exist.
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#造父变星 #周光关系 #宇宙距离
恒星内部的核聚变具体是怎样的？
How exactly does nuclear fusion work inside stars?
在太阳这类恒星核心，主要发生质子-质子链反应：四个氢核（质子）在高温高压下逐步聚变成一个氦核，过程中质量略有亏损并转为能量（质能方程 E=mc²）。核心温度约1500万度、密度极高，使量子隧穿得以克服质子间的电斥力。这个过程稳定地维持了恒星数十亿年的发光。
In Sun-like cores the main process is the proton-proton chain: four hydrogen nuclei (protons) slowly fuse into one helium nucleus under extreme heat and pressure, with a small mass deficit converted to energy via E=mc². At about 15 million degrees and enormous density, quantum tunneling overcomes the protons' electric repulsion. This process steadily powers stars for billions of years.
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#核聚变 #质子链 #质能方程
什么是中子星？
What is a neutron star?
中子星是质量约为太阳1.4到2倍、半径仅约10公里的极致密残骸，物质被压到原子核密度，一茶匙物质重达数亿吨。
A neutron star is an ultra-dense remnant about 1.4–2 times the Sun's mass squeezed into a ~10 km radius, with matter at nuclear density—a teaspoon would weigh hundreds of millions of tons.
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#中子星 #致密天体
什么是脉冲星？
What is a pulsar?
脉冲星是高速自转的中子星，其强磁场把射电波等辐射束像灯塔一样扫过空间，使我们在地球上接收到极其规律的脉冲信号。
A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star whose strong magnetic field sweeps beams of radiation like a lighthouse, producing extremely regular pulses we detect on Earth.
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#脉冲星 #中子星
什么是赫罗图？
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
赫罗图把恒星按照光度（或绝对星等）和表面温度（或光谱型）画在一张图上，是恒星研究的基石。大多数恒星落在从左上到右下的主序带上，代表一生中稳定燃烧氢的阶段。通过赫罗图，天文学家可以推断出恒星的年龄、质量和演化阶段。
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram plots stars by luminosity and surface temperature, and it is a cornerstone of stellar astronomy. Most stars lie on the main sequence running from upper left to lower right, representing the stable hydrogen-burning phase of their lives. With this diagram astronomers infer a star's age, mass, and evolutionary stage.
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#赫罗图 #恒星演化 #主序
太阳会永远这样发光吗？
Will the Sun shine like this forever?
不会。太阳目前正处于稳定的中年阶段，依靠核心的氢聚变为氦发光，这一阶段还能持续约50亿年。之后它会膨胀成红巨星，最终收缩为白矮星并逐渐冷却。所以太阳的寿命是有限的。
No. The Sun is in a stable middle age, shining by fusing hydrogen into helium in its core, a phase lasting about 5 billion more years. It will then swell into a red giant and finally shrink into a cooling white dwarf. So the Sun's life is finite.
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#太阳寿命 #红巨星 #白矮星
什么是中子星和脉冲星？
What are neutron stars and pulsars?
中子星是质量约1.4倍太阳以上的恒星核心坍缩后形成的超密天体，一茶匙物质就重达数十亿吨。它高速自转并拥有极强磁场，从磁极射出射电束，像灯塔一样周期性扫过地球时就被称作脉冲星。中子星是已知密度仅次于黑洞的天体。
A neutron star is an ultra-dense object formed when the core of a star more than about 1.4 solar masses collapses, packing matter so tightly that a teaspoon would weigh billions of tons. Spinning rapidly with an intense magnetic field, it beams radio waves from its poles; when this beam sweeps past Earth like a lighthouse, we call it a pulsar. Neutron stars are the densest known objects after black holes.
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#中子星 #脉冲星 #致密天体
恒星里的质子-质子链和 CNO 循环有什么不同？
How do the proton-proton chain and the CNO cycle in stars differ?
两者都把氢聚变成氦，但 pp 链在像太阳这样的小质量恒星中主导，CNO 循环依靠碳氮氧作催化剂，在大质量高温恒星中占主导。
Both fuse hydrogen into helium, but the pp chain dominates in lower-mass stars like the Sun, while the CNO cycle uses carbon-nitrogen-oxygen as catalysts and dominates in massive, hotter stars.
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#核聚变 #CNO #质子链
恒星的寿命一般有多长？
How long do stars typically live?
恒星寿命差别极大：质量越大的恒星燃烧越快、寿命越短，例如太阳约能活100亿年，而质量是太阳几十倍的恒星可能只活几百万年。
Stellar lifetimes vary hugely: more massive stars burn faster and die sooner—the Sun will live about 10 billion years, while stars dozens of times heavier may last only a few million years.
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#恒星寿命 #恒星演化
什么是星座？
What is a constellation?
星座是人类把天空中看起来相近的恒星连成的图案，便于辨认和记忆方向。现代天文学把整个天球划分为88个官方星座，作为确定天体位置的区域。同一星座里的恒星其实常常相距很远，只是从地球看方向接近。
A constellation is a pattern formed by connecting stars that appear close together in the sky, used by humans to identify and remember directions. Modern astronomy divides the entire sky into 88 official constellations that serve as regions for locating objects. Stars in the same constellation are often very far apart in reality, merely appearing near each other from Earth.
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#星座 #天球 #恒星图案
什么是红巨星？
What is a red giant?
红巨星是恒星晚期的膨胀阶段：核心的氢耗尽后，外层膨胀、表面变冷而呈红色，体积可膨胀到原来的上百倍。
A red giant is a late stage in a star's life: after its core hydrogen is used up, the outer layers expand and cool to red, swelling to over a hundred times its original size.
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#红巨星 #恒星演化
什么是超新星？
What is a supernova?
超新星是大质量恒星生命末期发生的剧烈爆炸，短时间内亮度可超过整个星系。爆炸把恒星外层物质抛向太空，并合成许多重元素如金和铁。其中心往往留下中子星或黑洞，而抛出的物质会成为新一代恒星和行星的原料。
A supernova is a violent explosion at the end of a massive star's life, briefly outshining an entire galaxy. The blast throws the star's outer layers into space and forges many heavy elements such as iron and gold. Its core often leaves behind a neutron star or black hole, while the ejected material becomes raw material for new stars and planets.
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#超新星 #恒星死亡 #重元素
什么是星云？
What is a nebula?
星云是太空中巨大而稀薄的气体和尘埃云，主要由氢组成。有些星云是恒星诞生的摇篮，有些则是恒星死亡后抛出的残骸。在望远镜中，它们常呈现红、蓝、绿等绚丽色彩。著名的猎户座大星云就是一处恒星育婴室。
A nebula is a vast, thin cloud of gas and dust in space, made mainly of hydrogen. Some nebulae are nurseries where new stars are born, while others are the remnants ejected by dying stars. Through telescopes they often show vivid red, blue, and green colors. The famous Orion Nebula is a stellar nursery.
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#星云 #星际气体 #恒星形成
超新星爆炸是什么？
What is a supernova explosion?
超新星是大质量恒星生命末期发生的剧烈爆炸，瞬间释放的能量可超过其一生辐射总和，并把重元素抛撒到宇宙空间。
A supernova is a violent explosion at the end of a massive star's life, releasing in moments more energy than it radiated in its whole life and scattering heavy elements into space.
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#超新星 #恒星死亡
星团的颜色—星等图上，主序拐点为什么可以当作测定星团年龄的“时钟”？
Why does the main-sequence turnoff point in a star cluster's color–magnitude diagram serve as a clock for dating the cluster?
同一星团的成员恒星近乎同时诞生且化学组成相同，演化快慢只取决于质量：大质量恒星燃烧快，先耗尽核心氢离开主序。色—星等图上仍留在主序的最亮恒星构成拐点，其位置直接标定年龄——年轻疏散星团拐点位于明亮的蓝端，百亿岁的球状星团则只剩类太阳质量的恒星还留在主序上。
Stars in a cluster are born together with a common composition, so their pace of evolution depends only on mass: massive stars burn fastest and leave the main sequence first. In the color–magnitude diagram, the brightest stars still on the sequence define the turnoff and fix the age directly—young open clusters turn off among luminous blue stars, whereas ten-billion-year-old globular clusters retain only roughly solar-mass stars on the main sequence.
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D. A. VandenBerg等：用改进的主序拐点法拟合等龄线测定55个球状星团的年龄，The Astrophysical Journal第775卷134号（2013年）
D. A. VandenBerg et al., ages of 55 globular clusters fitted from main-sequence turnoffs, The Astrophysical Journal 775, 134 (2013)
#主序拐点 #星团年龄 #色星等图
星团颜色—星等图上的“蓝离散星”指什么？为什么说它们是双星质量转移或恒星碰撞改变成员星演化的证据？
What are the 'blue stragglers' seen in a star cluster's colour–magnitude diagram, and why do they count as evidence that binary mass transfer or stellar collisions reshape the evolution of cluster members?
蓝离散星位于主序拐点更亮更蓝的一侧；若按单星演化，达到该年龄的星团不应再有此类恒星。主流解释是它们由两颗星并合而成：双星间的物质转移或密近交会让恒星补充燃料，重新回到主序上段发光。它们的存在说明星团并非孤立单星的简单集合，双星作用与动力学交互持续重塑着成员星的命运。
Blue stragglers lie brighter and bluer than the main-sequence turnoff, a region single stars of the cluster's age should have vacated long ago. The accepted explanation is that two stars became one: mass transfer within a binary, or a merger during a close encounter, refuels the resulting star and returns it to the upper main sequence. Their very existence shows that binaries and dynamical encounters continuously rewrite the fates of cluster members.
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McCrea,《Extended Main-Sequence of Some Stellar Clusters》,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,1964 (DOI: 10.1093/mnras/128.2.147)
W. H. McCrea, 'Extended Main-Sequence of Some Stellar Clusters', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1964, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/128.2.147
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#星团 #蓝离散星 #色星等图
为什么恒星会有不同的颜色？
Why do stars have different colors?
恒星的颜色由表面温度决定：温度高的偏蓝白色，温度低的偏橙红色，这遵循黑体辐射规律。
A star's color reflects its surface temperature: hotter stars appear blue-white, cooler ones orange-red, following blackbody radiation.
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#恒星颜色 #恒星温度
恒星的颜色和温度有什么关系？
What is the relationship between a star's color and its temperature?
恒星颜色由其表面温度决定：蓝白色恒星温度高（上万开尔文），黄色如太阳约 5800 K，红色恒星较冷（约 3000 K）。这是黑体辐射规律——温度越高，辐射峰值越偏蓝。
A star's color is set by its surface temperature: blue-white stars are hot (tens of thousands of kelvin), yellow ones like the Sun are about 5800 K, and red stars are cooler (around 3000 K). This follows blackbody radiation — the hotter the star, the bluer the peak of its light.
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Carroll & Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (2nd ed., 2007), ch. 3
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#恒星颜色 #表面温度 #黑体辐射
恒星是如何诞生的？
How are stars born?
恒星诞生于巨大的冷气体尘埃云中，当某一区域因引力坍缩、密度和温度升高到足以点燃核聚变时，一颗恒星就形成了。
Stars form in giant cold clouds of gas and dust; when a region collapses under gravity and becomes hot and dense enough to ignite nuclear fusion, a star is born.
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#恒星形成 #分子云
什么是褐矮星？
What is a brown dwarf?
褐矮星是质量介于最大行星和最小恒星之间的天体，约为13到80倍木星质量，不足以在核心持续进行氢核聚变。它们只能短暂燃烧较重的氘，发出暗弱的红外光，常被称为失败的恒星。褐矮星帮助研究恒星与行星之间的过渡。
A brown dwarf is an object between the largest planets and the smallest stars, about 13 to 80 times Jupiter's mass, too light to sustain hydrogen fusion in its core. It only briefly burns heavier deuterium and glows faintly in infrared, often called a failed star. Brown dwarfs help study the transition between stars and planets.
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B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#褐矮星 #失败恒星 #红外
赫罗图（H–R 图）如何成为恒星分类与定龄的基本工具？
How did the Hertzsprung–Russell (H–R) diagram become a basic tool for classifying stars and determining ages?
赫罗图以恒星的光度（或绝对星等）对表面温度（或光谱型）作图，主序、巨星支、白矮星等序列自然浮现，揭示恒星演化阶段。星团在 H–R 图上的主序拐点位置可用来反推其年龄，是恒星定龄的核心方法。
The H–R diagram plots stellar luminosity (or absolute magnitude) against surface temperature (or spectral type), and the main sequence, giant branch and white dwarfs emerge as natural sequences revealing evolutionary stage. The main-sequence turnoff position of a star cluster on the diagram lets astronomers infer its age, a core method of stellar dating.
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Russell, H.N. 1913, Popular Astronomy 21, 549（赫罗图）
Russell, H.N. 1913, Popular Astronomy, 21, 549 (H–R diagram)
#赫罗图 #主序 #恒星定龄
恒星和行星最大的区别是什么？
What is the biggest difference between a star and a planet?
恒星靠核心的核聚变自己发光发热，比如太阳；行星不会发光，只是反射恒星的光，像地球。简单说，恒星是自己会亮的大火球，行星是被照亮的小石头或气球。
A star shines under its own power through core nuclear fusion, like the Sun, while a planet makes no light of its own and only reflects a star's light, like Earth. Simply put, a star is a big ball of fire that glows by itself, and a planet is a lit-up rock or gas ball.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#恒星 #行星 #核聚变
白天的时候星星去哪儿了？
Where do the stars go in the daytime?
星星一直挂在天上，只是太阳太亮，把它们的光盖住了。太阳落下去以后，我们又能看见它们。
The stars never leave; the Sun is simply so bright that its light hides them. Once the Sun goes down, we can see them again.
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Zeilik,《Astronomy: The Evolving Universe》第9版,Cambridge University Press,2002
M. Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, 9th ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002
#星星 #白天
光年是时间单位还是距离单位？
Is a light-year a unit of time or of distance?
光年是距离单位，表示光在真空中走一年的路程，约9.46万亿公里。用它来量恒星之间的距离，比用公里方便得多。离太阳最近的恒星比邻星大约在4.2光年之外。
A light-year measures distance, not time: it is how far light travels in a year, roughly 9.46 trillion kilometres. That makes it far more convenient than kilometres for star distances. Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, lies about 4.2 light-years away.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#光年 #距离
离太阳最近的恒星是哪一颗？
What is the nearest star to the Sun?
离太阳最近的恒星系统是约4.24光年外的半人马座阿尔法三星系统，其中最近的单颗恒星是比邻星（Proxima Centauri）。比邻星是一颗又小又暗的红矮星，肉眼无法直接看见。它也是已知离我们最近的系外行星的母星。
The nearest star system to the Sun is Alpha Centauri, about 4.24 light-years away, and the closest single star within it is Proxima Centauri. Proxima is a small, dim red dwarf invisible to the naked eye. It is also the host star of the nearest known exoplanet to us.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#比邻星 #最近恒星 #红矮星
北极星为什么总挂在北边？
Why does Polaris always stay in the north?
北极星几乎正对着地球自转轴的北端，地球转动时它看起来几乎不动。其他星星则围着它慢慢转圈，所以人们靠它辨认方向。
Polaris sits almost exactly above the northern end of Earth's spin axis, so it barely seems to move as our planet turns. The other stars appear to circle slowly around it, which makes Polaris handy for finding north.
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Zeilik,《Astronomy: The Evolving Universe》第9版,Cambridge University Press,2002
M. Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, 9th ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002
#北极星 #辨向
太阳也是一颗星星吗？
Is the Sun a star too?
太阳就是一颗星星，只不过它离我们很近，看起来又大又亮。晚上的小星星其实都是很远的太阳。
The Sun really is a star, just a very close one, so it looks big and bright. The little stars at night are suns that are far, far away.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#太阳 #恒星
恒星演化的最终命运有哪些？
What are the possible final fates of stars?
恒星的结局取决于质量：小质量恒星（如太阳）最终膨胀成红巨星，再抛掉外层形成行星状星云，留下白矮星。质量更大的恒星会爆炸为超新星，核心坍缩成中子星或黑洞。质量越大，结局往往越剧烈。
A star's fate depends on its mass: low-mass stars like the Sun eventually swell into red giants, shed their outer layers as planetary nebulae, and leave white dwarfs. More massive stars explode as supernovae, leaving neutron stars or black holes at their cores. The greater the mass, the more violent the end typically is.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#恒星演化 #白矮星 #中子星 #黑洞
天上的星星为什么会眨眼睛？
Why do stars twinkle?
星星本身不会眨眼，是地球大气层的流动让星光在到达我们眼睛前不断折射、晃动，看起来就一闪一闪的。离地平线越近，穿过的大气越厚，星星就眨得越厉害。如果用太空望远镜看，星星就不眨了。
Stars do not actually blink; it is Earth's moving atmosphere that bends and wobbles their light before it reaches our eyes, making them appear to twinkle. Near the horizon the light passes through more air, so stars twinkle more strongly there. Seen from a space telescope, stars do not twinkle at all.
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B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#星星闪烁 #大气 #折射
什么是恒星？
What is a star?
恒星是由引力聚集、靠核心核聚变发光发热的庞大气体球，太阳就是一颗恒星。
A star is a massive ball of gas held together by gravity that shines via nuclear fusion in its core; the Sun is a star.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#恒星 #恒星定义
恒星靠什么燃烧发光？和地球上的火一样吗？
What makes stars burn and shine—is it like fire on Earth?
恒星靠核心的核聚变把氢聚变成氦并释放能量，这与化学燃烧完全不同，不需要氧气，能量来自质量亏损（E=mc²）。
Stars shine via nuclear fusion in their cores, turning hydrogen into helium and releasing energy—nothing like chemical fire, needing no oxygen, with energy coming from mass converted to energy (E=mc²).
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#核聚变 #恒星 #能量
太阳会一直亮下去吗？
Will the Sun shine forever?
太阳已经发光约46亿年，核心的氢还够用大约50亿年。之后它会膨胀成红巨星，最后留下一颗白矮星慢慢变冷。
The Sun has been shining for about 4.6 billion years and has roughly 5 billion years of hydrogen left. After that it will swell into a red giant and finally leave a slowly cooling white dwarf.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#太阳 #恒星演化
恒星是怎么诞生的？
How are stars born?
巨大的气体尘埃云在自身引力下坍缩，核心越挤越热。温度升到约一千万摄氏度时，氢开始聚变成氦，恒星就被点亮。剩下的物质常常围成盘，日后凝聚成行星。
A giant cloud of gas and dust collapses under its own gravity, and the core grows hotter as it is squeezed. Once it reaches around ten million degrees Celsius, hydrogen fuses into helium and the star switches on. Leftover material often settles into a disc that later builds planets.
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#恒星形成 #星云
恒星为什么会发光发热？
Why do stars shine and give off heat?
恒星的核心温度极高、压力极大，使氢原子核聚变成氦原子核，这个过程会释放出巨大能量。能量以光和热的形式向外传播，最终从恒星表面辐射到太空。只要核心还有足够的氢，恒星就能持续燃烧数十亿年。
Deep inside a star, the core is so hot and pressurized that hydrogen nuclei fuse into helium, releasing enormous energy. This energy travels outward as light and heat and is radiated from the star's surface into space. As long as the core has enough hydrogen, a star can shine for billions of years.
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Carroll & Ostlie,《An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics》第2版,Cambridge University Press,2017
B. W. Carroll and D. A. Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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#恒星 #核聚变 #能量