Stellar Astronomy

Stars: their formation, structure, evolution, and endpoints.

Parent category: Astronomy

Articles (4)

• White Dwarfs
  The dense, cooling remnants of Sun-like stars supported by electron degeneracy pressure, with a maximum mass of about 1.4 solar masses.
• Black Holes
  Regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon.
• Stellar Nucleosynthesis
  How stars build chemical elements from hydrogen through nuclear fusion, and how explosions and stellar winds spread them into space.
• Neutron Stars
  Ultra-dense stellar remnants formed in supernovae: their structure, the pulsar mechanism, and what their mergers teach about matter and elements.

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