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1	The Deaths of Stars Chapter 10
2	The End of a Star’s Life
3	Evolution off the Main Sequence: Expansion into a Red Giant
4	Expansion onto the Giant Branch
5	Degenerate Matter
6	Red Giant Evolution
7	Evidence for Stellar Evolution: Star Clusters
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9	Estimating the Age of a Cluster
10	Red Dwarfs
11	Sunlike Stars
12	White Dwarfs
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14	The Chandrasekhar Limit
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16	The Final Breaths of Sun-Like Stars: Planetary Nebulae
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18	Planetary Nebulae
19	A Gallery of P-N from Hubble
20	Mass Transfer in Binary Stars
21	Recycled Stellar Evolution
22	White Dwarfs in Binary Systems
23	Nova Explosions
24	Recurrent Novae
25	The Fate of our Sun and the End of Earth Sun will expand to a red giant in ~ 5 billion years Expands to ~ Earth’s orbit Earth will then be incinerated! Sun may form a planetary nebula (but uncertain) Sun’s C,O core will become a white dwarf
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27	The Deaths of Massive Stars: Supernovae
28	Numerical Simulations of Supernova Explosions
29	The Crab Nebula–Supernova from 1050 AD Can see expansion between 1973 and 2001 Kitt Peak National Observatory Images
30	Supernova Remnants
31	Tycho’s Supernova of 1572 Now seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory as an expanding cloud.
32	Synchrotron Emission and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration
33	The Famous Supernova of 1987: Supernova 1987A
34	The Remnant of Supernova 1987A
35	Observations of Supernovae
36	Type I and II Supernovae