Stars – Page 9 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

How Big Was the Interstellar Cloud From Which Our Sun Formed?

The giant molecular clouds from which stars form tend to have masses of about 10^4 solar masses of gas…

You can find a nice description of the supernova process on the NASA Space Place. When a massive star…

Since the energy from a White Dwarf star is derived from the stored thermal energy from its past thermonuclear…

Elements heavier than Helium are synthesized in a number of environments. For elements that are lighter than Iron, those…

It is the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars that provides a measurement of the absolute magnitude. You will…

To my knowledge, no. Stars need gas and dust (and probably a few other things, like magnetic fields) to…

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