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In what stage do stars spend the large majority of their life cycles? Why

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A star will enjoy most of its life in the main sequence phase. At this point nuclear fusion is turning hydrogen into helium. The star is only stable because the light pressure of this energy balances out the star's gravitational collapse.
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