Ben Biggs
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Ben has spent many, many years in science and tech publishing, since long before Curiosity was a just a glint in NASA's eye. He's also done some hard time in crime journalism, but that's another story. He likes space A LOT - mostly, reading or writing about what can happen when insanely clever people with lofty ambitions get billion-dollar budgets to play with.
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![Our Sun is a main sequence star, a G-type yellow dwarf that has an estimated total lifetime of around 10 billion years before it leaves its main sequence phase.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wSFEXqHhfZinHUaTkZvpLf-320-80.jpg)
Main sequence stars: definition & life cycle
By Nola Taylor Tillman, Ben Biggs last updated
reference Most stars are main sequence stars that fuse hydrogen to form helium in their cores - including our sun.
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