Stars in a Nutshell

• stellar structure
• star birth: Eagle nebula
  starburst galaxy
• stellar spectra: a digitial classification atlas
• the main sequence: nuclear reaction chains
  Super-K and its image of the Sun, in neutrinos
• H-R diagram animation--watch 'em evolve!
  another animation
• post-main sequence evolution
  • low mass:
    M dwarfs, L dwarfs and T dwarfs; an L dwarf discovery in IR
  • intermediate mass:
    red giants
    planetary nebulae: Cat's eye nebula, spirograph nebula
    white dwarfs: cool!
    implications: near-IR Milky Way K giants
    elliptical galaxy NGC 2768
  • high mass:
    supergiants: Betelgeuse
    supernovae: 1987A, 1999em, 2005cs
    ejecta: N63A
    neutron stars and pulsars: Crab nebula
    black holes: Cyg X-1
• nucleosynthesis:
  the periodic table and
  the circle, the circle of life

Sweet Home Milky Way

Milky Way: Overview and History

• The naked eye Milky Way:
  southern hemisphere, zoom to dark lanes
• Galileo: telescope
• Immanuel Kant
• William Hershel's model
• Charles Messier and his famous catalog
• Dreyer: New General Catalogue (NGC)
  zone of avoidance
• Kapteyn's universe
• Harlow Shapley
• globular clusters, e.g., Omega Centauri M13, M53,
• globular cluster sky distribution orignial published versions here and here; update here
• Trumpler: open cluster survey; results
• interstellar dust
  another example of scattering and absorption