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@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The key to these differences is that each successive fusion stage requires greater stellar core compression in order to overcome the natural repulsion between positively charged atomic nuclei of increasing mass & charge. Low mass stars can't generate the required core compressions for higher-level nuclear fusion reactions, & also lower compressions mean lower fusion reaction rates, hence the vastly longer lives of low mass stars. 3/3 #astronomicalTruths