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 LCOGT's Star In A Box app demonstrates the life cycle of a star and allows you to choose the initial mass of a star and follow it through its life. 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.
