White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae - S1.E30 - Crash Course Astronomy
Today Phil follows up last week’s look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects roughly the size of Earth. They also can form planetary nebulae: huge, intricately detailed objects created when the wind blown from the dying stars is lit up by the central white dwarf. They only last a few millennia. The Sun probably won’t form one, but higher mass stars do.
White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae - S1.E30 - Crash Course Astronomy
August 27, 2015
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