Stars
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- Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
- Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
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- Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies
- One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
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- Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas
- A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
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- How Stuff Works: Stars
- Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
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- Measuring the Stars
- Article providing information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
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- Spectra and Spectra Analysis
- A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars.
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- Star Data Pages
- Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
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- Astronomical League Double Star Club
- The purpose of the Double Star Club is to introduce observers to 100 of the finest double and multiple stars in the heavens.
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- Hubble Separates Stars In The Mira Binary System
- Hubble Space Telescope News Release/Paper about the discovery of the atmospheric interaction between the giant star Mira and its white dwarf companion star.
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- Interacting Binary Stars
- Nice click-through tour with some great animations about some of the complexities of Binary Systems.
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- Mass Transfer in the Binary Star Algol
- This site shows the dynamic hydrodynamic models have shown that the circumstellar flow in Algol is relatively independent of the initial speed and direction of the tidal stream. Rather, the flow dynamics are determined primarily by the strength of radiative cooling, which depends on the density of the gas in the mass transfer stream.
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- The Binary Pulsar: PSR 1913+16
- Information on the PSR 1013+16 pulsar, a part of a binary system, the discoverers of which won the Nobel Prize in 1993.
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- Astronomy 162: White Dwarfs and Novae
- Short on text, but contains excellent images, diagrams and a table of the brightest white dwarfs