Life of a Star
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Bodies11
Missions1
One flight, with a beginning and an end.
Ideas and conditions17
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Degeneracy pressure
- The iron peak in nuclear binding energy
- Initial stellar mass
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- Supernova
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Ejnar Hertzsprung
- Henry Norris Russell
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Main sequence (core hydrogen burning)
- Red giant and asymptotic giant branch
- Hydrogen fusion: the proton-proton chain and the CNO cycle
- Kilonova
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Rapid neutron capture (the r-process)