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Can you plz tell something about different or very rare type of stars

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Each is classified as an O-type star — and O-type stars are the rarest main sequence stars in theuniverse, comprising just 0.00003% of known stars. They're extremely prone to going supernova and collapsing into black holes or neutron stars. ... That's an O-type star in comparison to the other main sequence stars.

Yellow dwarfs are small, main sequence stars. The Sun is a yellow dwarf. A red dwarf is a small, cool, very faint, main sequence star whose surface temperature is under about 4,000 K. Red dwarfs are the most common type of star. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf.




different types of stars there are.
  • Protostar: A protostar is what you have before a star forms. ...
  • T Tauri Star: ...
  • Main Sequence Star: ...
  • Red Giant Star: ...
  • White Dwarf Star: ...
  • Red Dwarf Star: ...
  • Neutron Stars: ...
  • Supergiant Stars:
The brightest star in the sky is Sirius, also known as the “Dog Star” or, more officially, Alpha Canis Majoris, for its position in the constellation Canis Major. Sirius is a binary star dominated by a luminous main sequence star, Sirius A, with an apparent magnitude of -1.46.

The most massive stars can burn out and explode in a supernova after only a few million years of fusion. A star with a mass like the Sun, on the other hand, can continue fusing hydrogen for about 10 billion years.

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