Enrico Fermi
Astronomy 404
Lecture 13, Sept. 25 Fall 2019

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Stellar Energy Sources

How Does the Sun Shine?

  • inventory of stellar energy reserviors
  • ranking via energy conservation

Nuclei and Nuclear Forces

 Near-Live image of the sun in combined wavelengths 211, 193, 171 angstrom, as seen by NASA's SDO.

Lecture Archive


Brian D. Fields