Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
Astronomy 210
Lecture 33, April 15 Spring 2011

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Death of a 1 Msun star

  • Helium flash
  • Helium burning
  • Red giants and implications for HR diagrams like this and this
  • Death throes
  • evolutionary path on HR diagram

Remains of a 1 Msun star: White Dwarf

Remains of a 1 Msun star: Planetary nebula

The Evolution of Low Mass Stars

The Butterfly Nebula

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Brian D. Fields
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