
Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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How Did You Discover a New Type of Star?
Andor: When you make a really exciting discovery, you almost never say eureka. But i have had wonderful moments where looked at data from a star and gone hu what? And that puzzlement is very often the first sign that you are doing something really cool. He explains how stars form in these if anybody's seen the beautiful hubble pictures of something like the orion nebula,. These are what we sometimes think of as stellar nurseries. So places where new stars are born. Stars will fuse heavier and heavier elements until they reach a state where they have a core made of iron. If a big star suddenly has this perfect balancing act between gravity and fusion, it can
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