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The Sun and Stars

This video looks deep into space to learn how stars are born and how, eventually, they die. Each stage is covered: the formation of proto-stars, the nuclear ignition of main sequence stars, the cooling of red giants, the compaction of white dwarfs, and the final drama: death by burnout as a black dwarf or by supernova. Special attention is given to the Sun—its effect on the Earth, its projected life span, and its various levels, from corona to core, and their characteristics—as well as to spectrographic analysis of starlight and star classification with the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to National Science Education Standards, National Educational Technology Standards, and standards of the Association for the Advancement of Science. A Cambridge Educational Production. (25 minutes)

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Item#: BVL34742
Copyright date: ©2006
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-4757-8

Part of the Series : Cambridge Core Science Series: Space Science | Librarian Special-Science


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