High school students co-author planetary nebula paper Ten Sydney high-school students have taken a first step into the world of research by co-authoring a scientific paper with professional astronomers about a dying star.
Low mass star Discipline: EducationMain Sequence Low mass stars spend billions of years fusing hydrogen to helium in their cores via the proton-proton chain. They usually have a convection zone, and the activity of the convection zone determines if the star has activity similar to the sunspot cycle on our Sun. Some small starsTags: planetary nebulawhite dwarfred gianthydrogen fusiondensity
Stages in a Star's Life Discipline: Education The interactive H-R diagram below and our new Star In A Box app both show the life cycle of a star. The interactive H-R diagram is for a star with the same mass as the Sun, and shows how it forms and where it is on the H-R diagram at various stages of its life. The Star In A Box allows you to choose the initial mass of a star and follow it through its life.Explore the lifecycle of a star similar to the Sun.Tags: planetary nebulacloudprotostarwhite dwarfred giant
FTN image makes Astronomy Picture of the Day An image taken with LCOGT's Faulkes Telescope North was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 26th 2008. You can view the APOD site here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ The image of the planetary nebula M27 was taken by top UK astrophotographer Nik Szymanek. The final image was a mosaic of 4 frames (each frame made up stacked images), using the narrow band filters H alpha, H beta and OIII.
