Every Type of Star, From Immortal to Impossible

One kind of star has never died, not once in 13.8 billion years. Another can't exist yet, and a third may not exist at all. Here are all 18 types of star, from red dwarfs to magnetars, black holes and quark stars, with what the latest measurements actually say. Chapters 00:00 Red Dwarf: the star that has never died 00:42 Orange Dwarf 01:14 Yellow Dwarf (our Sun isn't yellow) 01:47 White Dwarf 02:23 Blue Dwarf: can't exist yet 02:50 Brown Dwarf: the failed star 03:31 Subdwarf 04:06 Blue Giant 04:31 Red Giant 05:00 Blue Supergiant 05:26 Red Supergiant: Betelgeuse to scale 06:06 Hypergiant 06:44 Wolf-Rayet Star 07:20 Neutron Star 07:54 Pulsar 08:32 Magnetar 09:07 Black Hole 09:41 Quark Star 10:15 The pattern: mass decides a star's fate New here? Subscribe to Slow Orbit Science for calm, carefully checked space science. #astronomy #stars #space