Crash Course Astronomy: Low Mass Stars and the Fate of the Sun

It's time to take a step out into the greater Universe in Crash Course Astronomy. Sure, exoplanets and brown dwarfs got us out of the solar system, but when you want to understand what's going on in the cosmos, you have to look at stars. We dipped into them in Episode 26, but now it's time to start poking into their guts in detail. The basic events in any star's life occur in low mass stars, ones from red dwarfs up to a few times the mass of Sun. Things get different when higher mass stars start...