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Available
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Publication
Great Courses (2014), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 180 pages
Description
For thousands of years, stars have been the prime example of something unattainable and unknowable -- places so far away that we can learn almost nothing about them. Yet amazingly, astronomers have been able to discover exactly what stars are made of, how they are born, how they shine, how they die, and how they play a surprisingly direct role in our lives. Over the past century, this research has truly touched the stars, uncovering the essential nature of the beautiful panoply of twinkling lights that spans the night sky.
Language
Original language
English
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[01] Why the stellar life cycle matters [02] The star's information messenger [03] Measuring the stars with light [04] Stellar nurseries [05] Gravitational collapse and protostars [06] The dynamics of star formation [07] Solar systems in the making [08] Telescopes-our eyes on the stars [09] Mass-the DNA of stars [10] Eclipses of stars-truth in the shadows [11] Stellar families [12] A portarait of our star, the Sun [13] E=MC2-energy for a star's life [14] Stars in middle age [15] Stellar death [16] Stellar corpses-diamonds in the sky [17] Dying breaths-cepheids and supernovae [18] Supernova remnants and galactic geysers [19] Stillborn stars [20] The dark mystery of the first stars [21] Stars as magnets [22] Solar storms-the perils of life with a star [23] The stellar recipe of life [24] A tale of two stars