'WHAT SORT OF MATTER IS IT AND WHERE DOES IT GO WHEN THE  NEW STAR IS ACTUALLY"BORN"
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Mostly hydrogen gas, I suppose with some other elements and dust. As the star ignites, the gasses are blown further out, with the heaviest atoms and molecules remaining in-system.
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To answer your actual question - nobody knows.\n\nLike "charge", and "magnetism" it remains one of the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
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What does this have to do with astronomy?
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How Mr. Bean became the spokesperson for Starsbuck.\nHow to pack on the weight with guaranteed results.\nCriss Angel:  Magician or Real?\nSpontaneous Combustion:  What really happened.\nGod told me that He doesn't exist.
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The sky is anything above the ground, it is only air. \n\nGod has always been there he was not created, he was the creator.
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You cannot own a star (yet).  And those sites that name a star for you are really misleading.  Stars are named or designated by the various astronomical  unions (not like steelworkers union, but it is called a union nevertheless).  The name you buy for 54.95 or so is only a copyrighted name and not the official name of the star.  Such as it is there is nothing wrong with that system and many people use it, but still, it is not the official astronomical name of the star.
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Would you like to see a real picture that was recently made of the beginning of the Universe?\n\nhttp://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0217/
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A star produces atoms in nuclear atomic chemical fusion or fission reactions.\nThe lifetime of a star takes fusion:\n3x4He > 12 C\n4 He + 12 C > 16 O plus 2x12 C > 20 Ne + 4 He\n56 Fe = Iron\n(4 He + 12 C = 16 O)+(2x12 C = 20 Ne + 4 He)_20 Ne + 4 He + 2x16 O\n= 56 Fe\nAs Iron consists to the sun's sunspots now for a magnetic field or liquid Iron of 5,000*C this gives the impression it is black against an even more hot and brighter gassy nuclear background.\nBut when the sun begins too end it's life the fusion reaches oxygen and then reaches Iron (Fe) and Beryllium (Be).\nAs the sun is completely filled with Be and Fe at the core. As metal absorbs energy and nuclear and gas forces out then the absorb from the metal core and as energy is released from the outer layers the star is unstable and is formed as a variable. The outer layers are swapped with the inners and the new outer layers are pushed off and out to a red giant until the core revs and the red giant keeps size for a while until a new process begins and the new inner layers of Oxygen from the old outer layers and the Oxygen keeps the red giant pushed out to size and then the whole star is cast as gas/plasma Iron and the star's power, heat and energy accelerates the star and with Oxygen inside, the explosion is created and a new atom is created, Gold.\nThe minerals create stars from 116 elementary chemicals.\nThe stars are made in the nebulae and new stars are made and so are planets. Thus the planets and stars create life from their chemicals and their chemicals come from the supernova.
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cosmic chemistry that is what is going on. take your time
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It should be named after our "star" performer:\n\nSol\n\nor more appropriately\n\nThe Solaris System\n\nI think it already is.
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All stars are made mostly of hydrogen, with a reasonable amount of helium thrown in for good measure.  Trace other elements exist as well, and since astronomers are so biased toward the light stuff (hydrogen and helium are the smallest atoms and therefore the lightest elements), they refer to anything heavier than helium as a “metal.”  The proportion of a star made up of stuff heavier than helium is called its “metallicity.”  The Sun’s metallicity is about 1.6% by mass.\n\nIn galactic terms, the Sun is considered “new.”  Yeah, it’s some 4.5 billion years old, but the same way anything heavier than helium gets dubbed a metal, the Sun is considered new—because it’s a second- (or maybe third-) generation star.\n\nY’see, when the Universe formed, hydrogen and helium were pretty much the only game in town, plus a bit of deuterium or lithium.  A star forming out of this stuff could have a metallicity just one millionth of the Sun’s!  To get more “metals,” the first generation of stars (i.e., the old ones) had to form, cooking up heavier elements inside their thermonuclear cores.  Some fraction of those stars went kablooie (in the form of supernovae and other exotic events), enriching the interstellar medium with heavy elements.  \n\nWhen a second (or third) generation of stars formed from this enriched interstellar medium, they had much higher metallicities.\n\nWe can find evidence for the presence of “metals” when we look at the light from individual stars or even entire galaxies.  Those elements show up as absorption features at very particular wavelengths of light, and astronomers can read that collection of “absorption lines” like a fingerprint.\n\nSo when we look at elliptical galaxies, we see evidence for very few elements heavier than helium, so we infer that the stars are “old”; when we look at most spiral galaxies, we see evidence for a metal-rich environment, so we understand the stars to be “new,” in the sense that they are second-generation stars that have benefitted from their predecessors” nuclear fusion and element production.\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York
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One theory is that every galaxy has a super-massive black hole at its center, which is slowly drawing all its stars into it. Plus the galaxies are being drawn into each other. If this continues, all matter will ultimately be drawn into one enormous black hole, which will collapse into itself and then...BANG! It starts all over again. Of course, there will be no humans around to witness it. Our star would have been destroyed long before that...
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You're fourteen, aren't you? Ignore the stars, they are accumulated dust and gas that happened to strike a nifty balance between gravity and some weird chemical reaction...or something like that...
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everything in this universe moves. stars are parts of galaxies. for example our sun is a part of the milky way galaxy. we are in the sagittarius arm of our galaxy which rotates about its centre and as we are in one of the outer arms as the galaxy seems to rotate the sun along with its nine planets revolves around the centre of the galaxy. this is exactly what happens in other stars and star systems. secondly  all stars are round not to mention, every heavenly body is round because gravity makes them round. and the shape we concieve is just because of the phenomenon of scattering of light as the light from the stars passes through various layers of the atmospheres of different densities
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Yes, new stars and new planets can form from the remnants of dead stars.  We can see this process happening, although it is extremely slow, a process that take millions of years.\n\nEven our sun is thought to be a 3rd generation star.  When our sun dies, it will expand to become a Red Giant star, eventually cooling/contracting into a white dwarf, as this happens, a lot of stellar meterial will be released and will float off into space to make new stars in the future.
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Their materials collect together (via gravity) and make new stars.  Granted, they tend to be made of heavier materials and burn cooler (often red).\n\nStars collapse when they run out of material.  A star begins by fusing hydrogen into helium.  Eventually, the hydrogen runs out and the star begins to collapse until it is able to fuse helium into carbon.  This continues through various elements until it is largely iron.  A star is simply not able to fuse iron into anything else (their not massive enough), so it eventually has a final collapse, sometimes into a supernova.\n\nThis final collapse can leave three possible "leftovers":\n1.  A white dwarf - if the star is less than 3 x the mass of our sun, then the core will be left as a burning ember.  Eventually it will burn out to become something known as a brown dwarf, a dead star.\n\n2.  A neutron star - if the star is between 3 and 10 (I think) x the mass of our sun, the explosion compresses the core down enough that protons and electrons are crammed together to form a neutron star.  It's a bunch of neutrons so dense a teaspoonful would weigh, well, tons on the earth.\n\n3.  A black hole - if the star is especially massive, the collapse never ends.  The core itself cannot overcome the massive gravity that is created by a now extremely dense remnant, forming a black hole.
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First, the answer: The shape of the black hole is directly related to the size and shape of its attending galaxy and the resulting gravity field...\nSecond, the explanation:\nWhat we call a black hole is the standing wave of a process. \nHuh?..OK, some clarification... Reality in this physical universe as observed by humans is made up of several core parts: Matter, energy, time, and space. Each of these has its attendant functions, processes, and interactions.\nFor example, one of the attendant functions of matter is gravity. One of the attendant interactions is that energy and matter are to some degree interchangeable. Atomic explosions occur when some matter is converted into energy. \nSo we can understand much of the process called a black hole.\nEntire galaxies are the result of the accumulation and interactions, via gravity, of matter. The shape of any galaxy is the result of its history of accumulation including its interaction with nearby galaxies. Just as electrons follow the lines of force within the Earth's magnetic field, and flow down into the atmosphere, resulting in the aurora, matter flows down the lines of attraction within the gravity field, or as it is often termed now days, the gravity well. \nOne of the processes that occurs during this flow is the formation of all the things seen by astronomers, such as stars and nebula, planets, comets, moons, dust, and all the elements from hydrogen to uranium and beyond.\nThese processes have limits. If an accumulation is small, the materials become a planet, either a rocky planet, it the material is heavy, or a gas planet if the material is lighter. If the material accumulated reaches a certain point, a star is formed. A star's life is determined by the total of its accumulation of matter in the beginning. If it is small it may burn out and end as a nova, or dwarf star, or if it is large, a supernova.\nA galaxies life is also determined by the accumulation of matter during its history. The vortex of gravity draws matter into the center. Momentum creates orbits around the center. Still, accumulation continues at the center. \nMatter spins down into the center and accumulates. The larger and older the galaxy, the larger the accumulation will be. \nWhen the accumulation reaches a size at which the strength of the gravity well is strong enough, nothing with mass can escape. Since there is a boundary between light and mass, light can not escape. We call this event a 'Black Hole' because things which can not be seen are often black. Remember, the visible spectrum is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and 'black' is a term relative to the visible spectrum. Just because humans name it black, does not mean that it has no existence. The process has not left the universe. It is still there, it is just not visible.\nThese processes which create black holes have limits. \nThe shape of the black hole is directly related to the size and shape of its attending galaxy.\nThe main point of relevance to this question: "How could a black hole not be spherical?" Is that the shape is a result of the lines of force of its gravity field.\nIf a galaxy was formed in the coldest, most distant (from any other galaxy) reaches of the universe, where matter was formed when there was nearly no momentum nor gravity in the space it formed, then a nearly spherical galaxy, called an elliptical was formed. (1) \nAt the center of these galaxies, is a nearly spherical black hole. \nDuring the history of the universe, the formation of galaxies changed the shape of the entire gravity field. As new galaxies formed, they experienced a reality with more energy, and a stronger gravity field. As galaxies moved through space, they interact with each other, all according to the gravity field they experience. Sometimes they merge, with disruption of the local gravity field. Their uniform shapes are destroyed by these interactions. (2)\nRegarding the question again...\n