Evolution of Solar Mass Stars

We trace the Sun's Phases of Life and detail what we know about Stellar Evolution. We watch the Sun as it finishes its Main Sequence life, becoming a Red Giant. At the end of this cycle, it will make a Planetary Nebula, and finish with a Degenerate Matter White Dwarf. I also talk about tiny stars: the Red Dwarfs. The Sun will live and die. What is the Sun's fate and the fate of stars with lower mass than the Sun?

The Sun's Phases of Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Lif...
Stellar Evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar...
Red Giant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant
White Dwarf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_d...
Degenerate matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degener...
Planetary Nebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planeta...
Many Planetary Nebulae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Asymptotic giant branch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asympto...
Red Dwarf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf

0:00 Introduction
1:08 Life Cycles of Stars
3:52 The Evolutionary Cycle of the Sun
5:42 Leaving the Main Sequence
7:10 How will the Sun Evolve?
8:08 Before the Sun was a star...
9:54 The Sun Today
11:38 Evolution of a Sun-like Star
14:54 Hydrogen shell burning
15:12 Hydrogen core exhaustion
17:23 Climbing the Red Giant Branch
21:01 The Helium Flash
21:54 The Triple-Alpha Process
24:14 Horizontal Branch Phase: Helium Fusion
25:23 The Horizontal Branch
26:06 Now the Helium begins to run out...
27:31 Helium core exhaustion
28:41 Asymptotic Giant Branch Phase
30:53 Core-Envelope Separation
32:00 Asymptotie Giant Branch Phase Mass Loss
32:36 Old Age Brings Unsteadiness
33:22 A Nebula Arises
34:33 Planetary Nebula Phase
35:32 White Dwarf
39:33 The Final State
43:04 Small-Mass-Star Hydrogen Core burning