Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
When the decreases it will start to contract. As it contracts it will start to burn for a few hundred million years. When the helium runs out, the sun will and it will burn and explode giving out lots of , we call this a . What remains of the sun is a very dense core called a white . Finally it will continue to and getting smaller and dimmer very slowly.