The Birth Of A Star Physics 111 Miami University Winter 1997 There have been 349 accesses to this page. But geologists tell us that rocks live 100's of millions of years, plate techtonics destroys them, they do not live forever.
Many cultures refer to the stars as eternal.
Modern astronomers have discovered that even stars have limits. They are born, they burn, and they die. Need a region of higher density that will attract the rest of the cloud. The star generally stays on the main sequence, steadily fusing Hydrogen into Helium in its core thus providing the pressure necessary to balance further gravitational collapse.