Books on the Sun & Stars @SAU Library
An Introduction to Star Formation by Call Number: QB 806 .W36 2011ISBN: 9780521630306Publication Date: 2004-02-01
The Day the World Discovered the Sun by Call Number: In-processISBN: 9780306820380Publication Date: 2012-05-08
The Life and Death of Stars by Call Number: QB806 .L36 2013ISBN: 9781107016385Publication Date: 2013-03-25
The Star Atlas Companion by Call Number: QB 63 .B34 2012ISBN: 9781461408291Publication Date: 2012-08-13
Star Clusters
NASA ScienceCast: Fried Planets
Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act of devouring one of its planets. It could be a preview of what will happen to Earth five billion years from now.
For more videos, visit NASA on Youtube.com.
Best Bets Databases
Corona of the Sun during a Solar Eclipse
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
- Credo ReferenceThis database provides 3,410,565 full text entries in 587 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, & measurement conversions.
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Explore the Sun and Stars
- Ask an Astronomer: Stars & Star ClustersProvides answers to questions regarding stars and star clusters. Ask an Astronomer is run by volunteers in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University.
- NovaLabs: The Sun LabThis Lab explores what makes the Sun so volatile and gives you access to the same data, images, and tools that scientists use to predict solar storms. Create a free account to track your progress. Information is provided by PBS and NASA.
- Stanford Solar Center: About the SunThe Stanford Solar Center is dedicated to sharing the joy and excitement of solar science exploration. Acting as the education and public outreach arm of the Solar Observatories Group, and funded by NASA, the Solar Center provides resources, activities, and projects relating to the Sun for teachers, students, and the public.
- Stars & Stellar EvolutionProvided by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory the information focuses on stellar evolution and on the youth and middle age of stars. Chandra and other X-ray telescopes focus on the high-energy action of this drama - the turbulent, multimillion degree outer atmospheres and gale-force outflows of gas from hot, luminous stars.
- Universe 101: The Life and Death of StarsA site provided by NASA that contains information on how stars form, live and die.