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Astrophysics: stars. Lockyer’s sketch of his “evolutionary” stellar classification system Lockyer’s laboratory spectra from electric arcs and (higher temperature) sparks, showing “proto-elements”. Astrophysics: stars. Hertzsprung Russell. Astrophysics: stars.
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Astrophysics: stars Lockyer’s sketch of his “evolutionary” stellar classification system Lockyer’s laboratory spectra from electric arcs and (higher temperature) sparks, showing “proto-elements”
Astrophysics: stars Hertzsprung Russell
Astrophysics: stars HR diagram from binary star data, Redman, MNRAS 88 (1928) 718, and sketch of giant-and-dwarf evolution from Eddington 1926
Astrophysics: stellar remnants HST image of Eskimo planetary nebula Sirius B: faint in optical, but bright in X rays! The Crab Nebula and its pulsar (SNR 1054)
Astrophysics: stellar remnants The presumed black-hole binary Cygnus X-1 seen in radio emission (Gallo et al.,Nature436 (2005) 819-821)
Astrophysics: stellar evolution Evolution of approximately solar-mass star in 1958 and today