The Death of a Star

Author: Thorne, Kip S.

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 33, Number 2, 1969, pp. 30-35

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 33:2, November 1969

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:33.2.star

Abstract

A star is only a glowing pause in the escapable contraction of a gas cloud to an uncertain, sometimes fantastic, end.