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  1. Cosmic Canvas: Stellar Evolution Program Guide & Resources

    Activities | Resource Guide
    Stars are born, live incredible lives, and eventually die — sometimes in dramatic ways! This journey, known as stellar evolution, helps us understand how stars shape the universe. With these program...
    Artist's concept of the binary star system HM Sge on the black background of space sprinkled with various sizes of red and white points of light. At the top of the image, a blazing hot white disk surrounds a white dwarf star that is pulling a stream of material from its red giant companion, the glowing mottled ball at bottom right.

  2. Science Briefing: Exploring the Lives and Deaths of Stars

    October 5, 2023 Professional Learning Webinar

    In this edition of NASA’s Universe of Learning Science Briefings, we will learn how low-, intermediate-mass, and massive stars evolve in single- and binary-star configurations. Dr. Roger Wesson ...

  3. Stellar Evolution Scavenger Hunt

    Activities
    This activity introduces participants to the stages in the life cycles of massive and low-to-intermediate-mass stars. They will learn how a star’s life cycle depends on its mass by participating...
    Red-orange arcs surround the carbon star CW Leonis. Brilliant searchlight beams from the star’s surface poke through.

  4. Sonifications of Webb's Images of the Southern Ring Nebula

    Audio | Sonification
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula – in near-infrared light (at left) and mid-infrared light (at right) – and each has been adapted to sound....
    Video still frame showing a glowing vertical line as it sweeps across near-infrared and mid-infrared images that have been sonified.

  5. Virtual Astronomy Events: Cape Fear Museum of History and Science

    Program Model
    The Virtual Astronomy Events were made up of two live program components with family-friendly activities demonstrated on Facebook Live and a virtual planetarium show in partnership with Morehead Planetarium...
    Virtual Astronomy Events program materials

  6. Life and Death of Stars Resource Guide

    Resource Guide
    Do stars really move? How do stars form and die? What are nebulas and supernovas? This resource guide contains a range of resources and activities to help you guide audiences as they explore many facets...
    Combined telescope images of the Crab Nebula displayed in red, yellow, green, ultraviolet, and X-ray light

  7. Helix Nebula: Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared Views (Frame Sets)

    Videos
    Stars like our Sun end their lives by casting off their outer layers, briefly forming a spectacular planetary nebula like the Helix Nebula. In visible light, we see the glow of hot gases illuminated by...
    Helix Nebula in Ultraviolet, Visible and Infrared Views