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Stars don’t live forever. What happens at the end of a star’s life depends very much on how heavy it is. The reason for this is that nuclear fusion happens quite differently in very heavy and very light stars.
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Red Giants and Planetary Nebulae. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_19
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