The Never-Ending Story of a Star (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)

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Sep 20, 201901:00:12Education

Presented by Renee Spiewak on Friday 20 September 2019. Like humans, stars often live their long lives in pairs, called binaries. At the end of their lives, they experience drastic transformations, rather than simply end...

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