Notes
Outline
Elements and Isotopes
Thermonuclear Fusion
The Importance of Neutrons
The Proton-Proton Cycle
Inside the Sun
Helioseismology
The Solar Neutrino “Problem”
The Next Fusion Cycles
What Happens when Hydrogen runs out?
Structure of a Red Giant
Something beautiful…
Creation of a Planetary Nebula
Final Throes : Planetary Nebulae
A really pretty one…
The Lifecycle of the Sun
Brown Dwarfs
Planets, Brown Dwarfs, Stars
Interior Structure of Stars
High Mass Stars – Heavy Element Fusion
High Mass Stars – Mass Loss
Life of High Mass Star
Stellar Lifetimes
Open Star Clusters
Globular Star Clusters
HR Diagrams and cluster evolution
Cluster HR Diagrams
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