The Life and Death of Stars
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Why the stellar life cycle matters -- THe star's information messenger -- Measuring the stars with light -- Stellar nurseries -- Gravitational collapse and protostars -- The dynamics of star formation -- Solar systems in the making -- Telescopes-our eyes on the stars -- Mass-the DNA of stars -- Eclipses of stars-truth in the shadows -- Stellar families -- A portarait of our star, the Sun -- E=MC2-energy for a star's life -- Stars in middle age -- Stellar death -- Stellar corpses-diamonds in the sky -- Dying breaths-cepheids and supernovae -- Supernova remnants and galactic geysers -- Stillborn stars -- The dark mystery of the first stars -- Stars as magnets -- Solar storms-the perils of life with a star -- THe stellar recipe of life -- A tale of two stars.
Lecturer: Professor Keivan G. Stassun, Vaderbilt University.
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SERIES
Great courses. Science & mathematics.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 4 videodiscs (12 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (172 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781629970370
1629970379
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Stassun, Keivan G.
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Cosmology.