Directory of Stellar Evolution Resources

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Evolution of stars, stages include: gas clouds, protostars, stages of burning hydrogen, helium, etc., white and brown dwarfs, red giants, supernovae, neutron stars, black holes.

Subcategories

• Cosmology

Resources in This Category

• Ask an Astronomer: What is the Life Cycle of a Star?

  http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/83-the-universe/stars-and-star-clusters/star-formation-and-molecular-clouds/398-what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-star-intermediate
  Article describing stellar evolution.

• Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Evolution

  http://zebu.uoregon.edu/textbook/se.html
  From the Electronic Universe Project.

• Life and Birth of Stars

  http://physics.gmu.edu/~jevans/astr103/CourseNotes/ECText/ch17_txt.htm
  The physical structure of stars, energy generation, mathematical models, main-sequence stars and the birth of stars.

• Starclock: Stellar Evolution Software

  http://leo.astronomy.cz/sclock/sclock.html
  Starclock is a program for DOS that animates the evolution of stars on the HR diagram.

• Stella Estrella Astronomy Club

  http://stellaestrella.weebly.com/
  A high school project with information about the star Antares and how it evolved to the star that it is now.

• Stellar Evolution

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
  Article from Wikipedia providing an account of the birth, life and death of stars.

• Stellar Evolution

  http://astunit.com/astunit_tutorial.php?topic=stellar
  Stars and the Hertzprung-Russell diagram (where a star's absolute luminosity is plotted against its surface temperature).

• Stellar Evolution (a la Chez Stella)

  http://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/49/chezstella.html
  The Universe in the Classroom: Basic school lesson introducing stellar evolution metaphorically through a restaurant setting.

• Stellar Evolution I: Solar Type Stars

  http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/StevI.html
  The complete sequence of events in detail.

• The Evolution of Stars

  http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4.html
  Lectures on the main sequence, red giants, stellar clusters and variable stars. Semi-technical.

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