Life of a Star- by Tejash Pathak

Everyday a lot of stars are born. That means too many to sing Happy Birthday in a whole day 😊.

I’ll take you on a journey of my life. Imagine me as a star in a galaxy. To your perspective the mother of a star is gas. Not has gas!!!! It is gas. Anyway, those were the quiet days of my life.

Then it gave birth to … another gas cloud. Now it might sound disappointing, but this is the key to our story. And hey if you guys know the lock this key goes into share with me 😊.

Did you know, fancy people call me a protostar? Life was still at ease for me, then I collapsed!! And boy that hurt! I started to fuse my first hydrogen. I had gravity and now! The output of the input was starting to equal the force of gravity. You would see this as a spinning disk. Did you?

I am now really hot, don’t touch me. I was gaining gravity more and more. I was sucking up the disk and looking more star-like. But still not exactly star, I am still infant in the womb.

Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. I sucked up the last of my ring and officially called baby born!!!!!! What no!!! I was officially called a star. Turns out I am small. Only the size of your Sun. The species is a yellow dwarf. My sibling went to Orion. She became Rigel. She is a blue supergiant.

Now that I have a ton of gravity, I am now looking for partners in crime. By the way, for you know, though gravity cannot be weighed. It is gravity that weighs.

Back to my story. My partners are planets. There are many planets to choose from. If I am unlucky, I won’t get a partner.

But that is a small chance. Solar systems are the rule not the exception. Science calls me WASP-12. But I call myself Rosie. Oh! I got a partner. His name is Dan. Science calls him WASP-12b.

But he got too close. And now, sadly, I am consuming him. Maybe, I got other planets to eat, I am hungry!

But when this comes to me in 2020200 I might have tested positive for life. But we will have to wait. Oh yeah now I got the answer to the question before this.

Now that I have a partner I’ll stay in the mobile home around the Galaxy. I am grabbing a lot more stuff. I am so happy. But Solar Storms are blasting Solar Winds. I can handle that. Except for Dan. I was, for a star, quiet.

Ow! What was that all about? Something just hit me. Dan is still here. I’m going to call 100. “Hello. What do you mean you can’t come ? Oh! Am I so many light years away? Fine. I’ll do my own research.”

Turns out it was a comet. I think he should have followed Social distancing during this crisis. I don’t know if I’m sick but a lot of solar flares are coming up. If there is a Solar Hurricane, it is like that. Ahh…

Aging in reverse, kinda. My age has not changed. But the time I die has. By how much? By, an astronomical blink of an eye. Imagine living a blink longer than you would. But for you 6–10 generations will pass.

I like my family. Oh no! I spoke too soon. Dan just died ☹. When you see me 10,000 years have passed. Well I’ll have to live like this. My family will miss you. But I don’t feel like that for that comet wo hit me.

He was rude. He deserved it. I like this stage. Turns out 2 red dwarfs are next to me. My gas is still medium. Oh I wished I could play with them. But I can’t. Social Distancing, remember. I don’t even know how long I’ll last. But science may.

You can think of me as an adult. The two are family. The first is Gloria Long-liver. The second is Sally Long-liver. They are named after their death age. They will see me die, hoping to see them at my bedside. But hey, on the brighter side , at least I will be remembered!! Maybe not forever but at least 90 billion years. That is 20 times the age of Earth. Longer than the universe has aged. Even in my time. So for me, I will be remembered forever, at least I wanna feel that way.

Oh no!!We have a problem. A huge solar flare has just erupted. It bathes my family in Solar Wind. Ripping away a lot of atmosphere. It will make it harder for aliens to land and stay here. Now don’t you blame me for killing Agubba(name of Alian). He was really cute. But this is one life. Hope I’m going in the right direction. A lot of friends in the galaxy. I have met many stars and seen many planets, well some of them I eaten as well! I got to hang-out with them. But, hey come here, yeah come on, no going back. That silly star was moving too far.

Of course, if you might go little closer, I might eat you. But still too far. I am not having such speed, looks like age is catching up. I am writing this diary since 20million yrs. Time to close my chapter. But I really don’t want.

I am running out of hydrogen. Will I die soon? Yes. I am breaking down. But until my fuel is all used up, I will do what I always wanted to do. Eat a pizza from Domino’s. The only catch is, it should burn the roof of my mouth. Ahh!! I just drank Liquid Nitrogen. Wait, that was a pizza? Was it dipped in Liquid Nitrogen? So you’re telling me that was an extra hot pizza, dipped in Liquid Nitrogen?

Liquid nitrogen makes it plasmatic for me. I am drinking honey right now. Make it hotter. What do you mean you can’t? That does it. I won’t be able to do the one thing, I have been wanting to do. I just hope, I won’t turn into a black hole. Please don’t, please don’t!!!!!!!!

I am fusing Helium. And growing and cooling. This is great. I will not turn into a black hole or a neutron star. The end is near. Goodbye all and pizza. You shall orbit the red dwarves. I am starting to fuse beryllium. This is the last element of my life I’ll fuse.

I had so much to do!!! Like pee in my pants. Also to see one last star friend before I die. Or grabbing one more planet. There are a lot of things on my to do list.

Hi Kiman.

Oh no! I just peed in my pants. Oh yeah!

Hey, let’s play.

Are you okay aliens?

Do you like this dress?

(Dress is burning.)

Oh never mind.

Hey, is there a flight to Sagittarius?

(Yes.)

I’ll take the flight.

My sister. So good to see you Rigel.

Only a little of my gas is left. I will try to do some more.

Hey Voyager 1.

I have done what I wanted to. Just in time as well. Only a year to go.

2 years later!!

I have expelled my outer layers in a planetary nebula. Now I’m called a white dwarf. Held together by electron degeneracy pressure. And, if it were not for the red dwarfs, the planetary nebula would have given birth to another star. But at least they can use the fuel. It could have felt like giving birth after death!! And I am not completely dead yet. I still have a fair bit of gravity. So you may not see me, but my friends can and I hope they will.

Since I am cooler, maybe now the pizza will burn the roof of my mouth. At least now I can relax and see to the end of the journey of my life. I shall order one. 1 plasmatic extra extra spicy extra extra extra large pizza please, make it 2 but the second should not be even a little spicy, Thank you. Why 2 you ask? Because of my family. What did you say, you did not meet them while I was alive? OK, Gloria Long-Liver will show you and I will tell you the names of them. OK,OK I Will shout out the names . That one is called Pancrteas. That one is called Willower, next we have Duke, she is the Duchess and last but certainly not The least we have is George The 1st , He is the King and that is why he is the last because there it is the safest. He is the only one that orbits all of us.

Taking my last deep breath, eyes are closing, I can feel my heart is not able to support me anymore. Closing the diary as my journey has just began. Looking back and enjoying the moments of my life. My mind is becoming peaceful and so my heart, I am fearless to crossover to the other side.

I hope you will remember my life story if not me. Good bye!!!