Solar cores of high temperatures, generate energy quicker, therefore higher temperature stars are more luminescent. Stars located on the main sequence, referred to as “dwarfs”, must generate power through hydrogen and helium nuclear fusion in their solar core and be in thermal equilibrium, the balance between luminosity and energy generation, and hydrostatic equilibrium, equality between pressure and gravity. Following the mass-luminosity relationship, hot, bright and high mass stars are located on the upper left, ranging in temperatures from roughly 2 x 104 to 4 x104 Kelvin and a luminosity of approximately 104 solar units. The upper main sequence stars have a mass greater than 1.5 solar masses and generate energy by solely nuclear fusion involving hydrogen and helium. Their internal structure is generally a convective core and a radiative envelope. As hydrogen is fused into helium, the nuclei which remain, travel quicker in order to sustain hydrostatic equilibrium causing fusion to occur more rapidly than previously thus, as stars age the more luminescent they
Solar cores of high temperatures, generate energy quicker, therefore higher temperature stars are more luminescent. Stars located on the main sequence, referred to as “dwarfs”, must generate power through hydrogen and helium nuclear fusion in their solar core and be in thermal equilibrium, the balance between luminosity and energy generation, and hydrostatic equilibrium, equality between pressure and gravity. Following the mass-luminosity relationship, hot, bright and high mass stars are located on the upper left, ranging in temperatures from roughly 2 x 104 to 4 x104 Kelvin and a luminosity of approximately 104 solar units. The upper main sequence stars have a mass greater than 1.5 solar masses and generate energy by solely nuclear fusion involving hydrogen and helium. Their internal structure is generally a convective core and a radiative envelope. As hydrogen is fused into helium, the nuclei which remain, travel quicker in order to sustain hydrostatic equilibrium causing fusion to occur more rapidly than previously thus, as stars age the more luminescent they