Nova & SuperNova - Heart of the Valley Astronomers
... • Electron degeneracy is a stellar application of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, as is neutron degeneracy. • No two electrons can occupy identical states, even under the pressure of a collapsing star of several solar masses. • For stellar masses less than about 1.44 solar masses, the energy from the ...
... • Electron degeneracy is a stellar application of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, as is neutron degeneracy. • No two electrons can occupy identical states, even under the pressure of a collapsing star of several solar masses. • For stellar masses less than about 1.44 solar masses, the energy from the ...
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... run out, there is no outward pressure to balance out gravity. Therefore, the star collapses inward. This compression rapidly heats the gases to billions of degrees. This creates a huge ...
... run out, there is no outward pressure to balance out gravity. Therefore, the star collapses inward. This compression rapidly heats the gases to billions of degrees. This creates a huge ...
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... If mass grows to 1.4 MSun (the "Chandrasekhar limit"), gravity overwhelms the Pauli exclusion pressure supporting the WD. This starts carbon fusion everywhere at once. Tremendous energy makes star explode. No core remnant. ...
... If mass grows to 1.4 MSun (the "Chandrasekhar limit"), gravity overwhelms the Pauli exclusion pressure supporting the WD. This starts carbon fusion everywhere at once. Tremendous energy makes star explode. No core remnant. ...
Ch. 14 Formation of Stars
... • Stars that are lighter than 0.4 suns have relatively cool interiors, which makes them more opaque to photons. • As a result, radiation cannot easily flow through any part of them, so they only have convective zones. No radiative zones. • Core convective zone • “Stars” between 0.08 and 0.012 sola ...
... • Stars that are lighter than 0.4 suns have relatively cool interiors, which makes them more opaque to photons. • As a result, radiation cannot easily flow through any part of them, so they only have convective zones. No radiative zones. • Core convective zone • “Stars” between 0.08 and 0.012 sola ...
Linking Asteroids and Meteorites through Reflectance Spectroscopy
... • At the same size, hotter stars are more luminous than cooler ones • At the same temperature, larger stars are more luminous than smaller ones ...
... • At the same size, hotter stars are more luminous than cooler ones • At the same temperature, larger stars are more luminous than smaller ones ...
Comparing Earth, Sun and Jupiter
... a. If pulsars were binary stars, what would be the size of the semimajor axis? a3 P M ...
... a. If pulsars were binary stars, what would be the size of the semimajor axis? a3 P M ...
Stellar Evolution Notes
... A galaxy is a group of hundreds of billions of stars that are relatively close to each other. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains over 100 billion stars. The universe has more than 100 billion galaxies with each galaxy containing an average of 100 billion stars. ...
... A galaxy is a group of hundreds of billions of stars that are relatively close to each other. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains over 100 billion stars. The universe has more than 100 billion galaxies with each galaxy containing an average of 100 billion stars. ...
Day 1212
... The outer layers expand and cool. In this late stage of its life cycle, an average star like our Sun is called a giant. ...
... The outer layers expand and cool. In this late stage of its life cycle, an average star like our Sun is called a giant. ...
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... How is it possible for white dwarf stars to have lower luminosity than the sun even though the sun is cooler than white dwarfs? ...
... How is it possible for white dwarf stars to have lower luminosity than the sun even though the sun is cooler than white dwarfs? ...
Compare the following sets of stars using the words: BRIGHTER or
... 21. Draw and label the life cycle of stars (see your star notes): Sun-like Star -> red giant -> planetary nebula -> white dwarf ...
... 21. Draw and label the life cycle of stars (see your star notes): Sun-like Star -> red giant -> planetary nebula -> white dwarf ...
Integrative Studies 410 Our Place in the Universe
... The Fundamental Problem in studying the stellar lifecycle • We study the subjects of our research for a tiny fraction of its lifetime • Sun’s life expectancy ~ 10 billion (1010) years • Careful study of the Sun ~ 370 years • We have studied the Sun for only 1/27 millionth of its lifetime! ...
... The Fundamental Problem in studying the stellar lifecycle • We study the subjects of our research for a tiny fraction of its lifetime • Sun’s life expectancy ~ 10 billion (1010) years • Careful study of the Sun ~ 370 years • We have studied the Sun for only 1/27 millionth of its lifetime! ...
What are stars?
... - We know now that the stars in a constellation are not necessarily very close together, but appear to be due to our line of sight - Examples – Orion, Ursa Major (Big Dipper) ...
... - We know now that the stars in a constellation are not necessarily very close together, but appear to be due to our line of sight - Examples – Orion, Ursa Major (Big Dipper) ...
The genesis and characteristics of black holes
... molecules: do not have enough Ekin triggers: compressions Jeans mass and Jeans radius: ...
... molecules: do not have enough Ekin triggers: compressions Jeans mass and Jeans radius: ...
mission
... Dark nebula material contracts due to gravity, heats up Spins faster and flattens out into a disk Center becomes the sun when it gets hot enough to ignite Disk becomes the planets ...
... Dark nebula material contracts due to gravity, heats up Spins faster and flattens out into a disk Center becomes the sun when it gets hot enough to ignite Disk becomes the planets ...
Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes during its lifetime. Depending on the mass of the star, this lifetime ranges from a few million years for the most massive to trillions of years for the least massive, which is considerably longer than the age of the universe. The table shows the lifetimes of stars as a function of their masses. All stars are born from collapsing clouds of gas and dust, often called nebulae or molecular clouds. Over the course of millions of years, these protostars settle down into a state of equilibrium, becoming what is known as a main-sequence star.Nuclear fusion powers a star for most of its life. Initially the energy is generated by the fusion of hydrogen atoms at the core of the main-sequence star. Later, as the preponderance of atoms at the core becomes helium, stars like the Sun begin to fuse hydrogen along a spherical shell surrounding the core. This process causes the star to gradually grow in size, passing through the subgiant stage until it reaches the red giant phase. Stars with at least half the mass of the Sun can also begin to generate energy through the fusion of helium at their core, whereas more-massive stars can fuse heavier elements along a series of concentric shells. Once a star like the Sun has exhausted its nuclear fuel, its core collapses into a dense white dwarf and the outer layers are expelled as a planetary nebula. Stars with around ten or more times the mass of the Sun can explode in a supernova as their inert iron cores collapse into an extremely dense neutron star or black hole. Although the universe is not old enough for any of the smallest red dwarfs to have reached the end of their lives, stellar models suggest they will slowly become brighter and hotter before running out of hydrogen fuel and becoming low-mass white dwarfs.Stellar evolution is not studied by observing the life of a single star, as most stellar changes occur too slowly to be detected, even over many centuries. Instead, astrophysicists come to understand how stars evolve by observing numerous stars at various points in their lifetime, and by simulating stellar structure using computer models.In June 2015, astronomers reported evidence for Population III stars in the Cosmos Redshift 7 galaxy at z = 6.60. Such stars are likely to have existed in the very early universe (i.e., at high redshift), and may have started the production of chemical elements heavier than hydrogen that are needed for the later formation of planets and life as we know it.