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The final evolutionary state of stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star or black hole.

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Does a star's emitted energy equal the work of its gravitational field?

No, a star's source of energy is nuclear reactions, not gravitational collapse. Lord Kelvin estimated the age of the sun on the assumption that its only source of energy was gravitational potential en …
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