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Stars & How They Die

How stars form, fuse hydrogen on the main sequence, and die according to mass: red giants and white dwarfs, supergiants and supernovae, neutron stars and black holes, and why we are made of star stuff.

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Prereqs: Atoms & nuclei; gravity. Next: Exoplanets & life; general relativity. Sources: Carroll & Ostlie, *An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics*; NASA; Crash Course Astronomy #26–32.
Next: 1. Life on the main sequence

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