This article, authored by Joel Edward Tohline of Louisiana State University, investigates if binaries can form by spontaneous fission of rapidly rotating protostars. The authors present a classical fission hypothesis,...

This lesson plan, created by Isabel Hawkins and Timothy Keys of the University of California, Berkeley, is meant to familiarize students with different star spectra using NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer. The...

This site, created by author James B. Kaler of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, gives information relating to stars such as their brightness and distance, their mass, their birth and death, and...

This site describes the evolution of stars like the sun from the collapse of gas and dust to turning into a white dwarf. The life cycle of a star is illustrated through all stages with text and images.

This website, authored by George Bell of Arizona State University, gives an extensive outline of the history and results of the discovery of extrasolar planets. Topics include planetary like objects, orbiting pulsars and...