Astronomy, Unit 3: Sun and Stars

Everything in our world, including the atoms in our bodies, is made of star stuff. The life, death, and function of stars and our sun is the focus of this unit. Stellar temperatures, sizes, magnitudes, and distances along with the “life cycles” of low mass and high mass stars will be modeled. The relationship between luminosity and temperature (HR diagram) will be discussed. White dwarfs, supernovae, neutron stars, and black holes, as end products of stellar evolution, will be investigated.