Stars and Stuff

In this post I'll be doing the Radial Velocity (Super-Fast) Lab handed out in class earlier this week. We're supposed to determine t...

Exoplanets are planets found outside our solar system, and remain the focus of a rapidly growing field of astronomy. Detecting them, however...

After Professor Johnson's very interesting plug for Professor Jason Wright's posts on  Dyson spheres , I was reminded by a science f...

Most people have looked up at the night sky and seen the moon. Sometimes, it looks like this: Other times, it looks like this: Someti...

In this post I'll be doing #2 from this week's worksheet on star formation. The problem goes over deriving the time scale of star fo...

In this post I'll be doing #1 from this week's worksheet on star formation. The question itself is not that difficult, but its brief...

In this post I'll be deriving the relationships for stellar structure (i.e. the relationships between temperature, mass, density, pressu...