Index

Interstellar Clouds
Classes of Objects
Gas Giant Planets
Brown Dwarfs
Red Dwarfs
Sun-sized Stars
Large Stars
The Largest Stars
Impossible Stars
Star Clusters
Planetary Systems
Rocky Planets
An Endless Cycle

• Wikipedia - Star Life Cycles
  Update and comprehensive general article.
• The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs
  Eduardo L. Martin, Rafael Rebolo and Maria Rosa Zapatero-Osorio, American Scientist Online, November-December 1997
• Brown Dwarfs
  Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy, The University of California at Berkeley, last updated Feb 2001
• Doug Johnstone's Orion Page
  Results of research conducted by Doug Johnstone, Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, while an NSERC post-doctoral fellow at CITA, the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
• Stellar Structure and Evolution Cole Miller, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Astro 606 lecture notes.
• Life Cycles of the Stars
  Bradford Technology Limited, Automatic HTML conversion by Mark J Cox, 1996, Copyright 1993 Bradford Technology Limited, Armagh Planetarium and Mayfield Consultants.
• Home Page of Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars
  James Schombert, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Includes links to online resources to support the course.
• Astronomy HyperText Book
  University of Oregon.
• Star Clusters, Old and New
  From the Anglo Australian Observatory Astronomical Image Archive

• Universe, Origins and Evolution
  Theodore Snow and Kennet Brownsberger, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California, 1997.
• Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics. 3rd Edition
  Michael Zeilik, Stephen Gregory and Elske Smith, Sanders College Publishing, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992.
• Stars and Their Spectra, An Introduction to the Spectral Sequence
  James B Kaler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, Paperback Edition with Corrections, 1997.