A star's size stabilizes when
A) thermal pressure and gravitational attraction balance each other.
B) the star's gravitational attraction is balanced by the gravitational attraction to neighboring stars.
C) the star first ignites.
D) it reaches temperatures of about 3 million K.
Answer: A
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