A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta CNN clip shows shift in voter ...

This is an artist's conception of a binary star system that produces recurrent novae and, ultimately, the supernova PTF 11kx. A red giant star ... it explodes as a type 1a supernova.

Type Ia supernovae originate in binary ... At a certain point in their lifetimes, each star will expand into a red giant, then turn into a white dwarf.

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...