'Faintest stars' presentation slideshows

Type Ia supernovae and the ESSENCE supernova survey Kevin Krisciunas

Type Ia supernovae and the ESSENCE supernova survey Kevin Krisciunas. There are two basic kinds of supernovae. Roughly 1 out of 1000 stars that forms has a mass greater than 8 M sun . Shortly after such a star develops an iron core, it explodes as a Type II SN.

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1B11 Foundations of Astronomy Star names and magnitudes

1B11 Foundations of Astronomy Star names and magnitudes. Liz Puchnarewicz emp@mssl.ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/webct www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/. 1B11 Our night sky.

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Astronomy: Horizons 10th edition

Astronomy: Horizons 10th edition. Michael Seeds. The night sky is the rest of the universe as seen from our planet. When you look up at the stars, you look out through a layer of air only a few hundred kilometers deep.

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