The Solar Interior
Transition Region
Physics of the Solar Corona and Transition Region
Coronal Loops
SOHO The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
TRACE Mission Objectives Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
Coronal Mass Ejections
Solar Flare Theory
Nucleosynthesis - intro
CNN - Satellite sheds light on solar storms
CNN - Solar flares produce quakes deep inside the Sun
SOHO The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The New Double dMe Binary RE0618+75
NASA's High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) team models the Sun
NASA's Computational Technologies Project
Current Solar Data
Stellar Evolution
Stellar evolution
The Evolution of Stars
The Evolution of High-Mass Stars
Life and Birth of Stars
Stars and the Hertzprung-Russell Diagram
Evolution of Solar Type Stars
The Sun
The Sun's energy comes from nuclear reactions in its core
The Formation of Stars, at Amazon USA
CNN - New Hubble image shows life cycle of stars - 01/06/99
BBC: Internet reveals solar explosion's target
Hubble Spies a Doomed Star - 10/11/99
Scientists 'create' a neutron star - 11/11/99
An active Sun - 12/11/99 (sunspots)
Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis (Geneva Observatory)
Nucleosynthesis (NASA)
TUNL Nuclear Astrophysics Group (University of North Carolina)
Hubble images unlock Keyhole Nebula mysteries - 03/02/00
Hubble looks through the keyhole - 04/02/00
Major flare erupts on Sun - 07/02/00
Sun-like stars said to emit superflares - 09/01/00
Hubble reveals violent supernova shockwave - 17/02/00
'And here's today's space weather forecast...' - 19/02/00
Date set for desert Earth - 20/02/00 "If we calculated correctly, Earth has been habitable for 4.5 billion years and only has a half billion years left."
Solar storm just a wind up - 22/02/00
Sun aims powerful flares at Earth - 01/03/00
The Sun's show hots up - 03/03/00
Hubble spies ghostly Reflection Nebula - 03/03/00
Hubble snaps dying stars - 09/03/00
Scientists 'look through' the Sun - 09/03/00
Satellite tracks magnetic storms - 26/03/00
Hubble spies a 'glowing eye' in space - 06/04/00
Scientists scan auroral data - 11/04/00
Hubble, Chandra reveal a nova of many colors - 13/04/00
Solar eruption may flood Earth - 02/05/00
Chandra images supernova blast wave - 12/05/00
Solar Storms: Predicting the weather in space - 28/06/00 RealVideo
Satellite squadron to probe space weather - 29/06/00
Glimpse of gamma-ray burst galaxy sheds light on star births, deaths - 30/06/00
Chandra maps exploded star - 06/07/00
Dim star [LP 944-20] wakes up - 12/07/00 Astronomers have detected an explosion on the surface of a failed star
Solar eruptions could spark 'northern lights' this week - 12/07/00
A warning to Earth from the far side of the Sun - 13/07/00 Four probes are being launched to study how solar storms penetrate our planet's magnetic shield
Hubble sees star's death throes - 13/07/00 WR 136
Hubble watches star demolish its surroundings - 13/07/00 in NGC 6888
Pulsars 'lie about their ages' - 14/07/00 B1757-24
Another strong solar flare heads toward Earth - 14/07/00
Solar filament takes off - 11/08/00
Sun 'sneeze' will blind satellites - 12/08/00
Movie captures dying star - 15/08/00
Stellar Evolution
Stellar Evolution Database
Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Evolution
Astronomy HyperText Book: Fusion Sequences in Stars
Radio astronomers capture preview of sun's apocalypse - 17/08/00
Sun 'sneeze' will blind satellites - 17/08/00
Probes blast into orbit to monitor space storms - 17/08/00
Cosmic census finds universe full of brown dwarves - 23/08/00
Hubble shows mystery object in new light - 31/08/00
Nebulous 'Spirograph' astounds Hubble astronomers - 11/09/00
Young stars belch fiery gas in Hubble time-lapse movies - 21/09/00
Giant sunspot comes into view - 22/09/00
Fire fountains may explain solar puzzle - 27/09/00
Close-up on pulsating star - 27/09/00
Hubble reveals secrets of a celestial 'Blob' - 09/10/00 N81
Hubble images show delicate wisps of starstuff - 11/10/00
Chandra sees 'cosmic traffic pile-up' - 07/11/00 ...jet of super-hot gas shooting from the heart of a quasar
Hubble captures wispy decay of nebulous giant - 06/12/00
Stellar 'baby boom' in early Universe - 02/01/01
'X' marks star-forming spot in Hubble image - 04/01/01
Cat's Eye spy - 10/01/01 Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is about a thousand years old and three thousand light-years distant
Gas clouds disappear into 'nothing' - 14/01/01
A star is torn - 08/02/01 the most spectacular image ever taken of a star in its death throes has been captured by the Hubble space telescope: Menzel Three
Sun flips magnetic field - 16/02/01
Dead stars could be 'missing mass' - 22/03/01
Young stars rock their cradle in Hubble pic - 28/03/01
Giant sunspot may explode - 29/03/01
Giant sunspot erupts - 30/03/01
Earth hit by solar storm - 31/03/01
Solar storms spark light show - 01/04/01
Light show set to continue - 02/04/01
Sun unleashes the big one - 04/04/01
To make gold take two stars and mix violently - 12/04/01
Sun shoots another mass of energy at Earth - 12/04/01
Aurora seen from space - 14/04/01
Ring of death - 02/05/01 Astronomers have seen a remarkable, almost perfect circle in space
Star 'eats' a planet - 09/05/01 Astronomers finally have evidence that Sun-like stars with planets are guilty of swallowing the planets in orbit around them
Nest of stars spotted by X-ray telescope - 18/05/01 This Chandra image provides the first complete census of compact binaries in the core of a globular cluster
Sun's 200-year cycle may have doomed Mayans - 18/05/01
Neutron star Scorpius in intergalactic thriller - 06/06/01
Sun heats up Earth in long distance relationship - 05/07/01
06/07/01
Rotten Egg Nebula a shocker in Hubble pic - 27/08/01
Cool star chills stellar theories - 10/09/01 KS 1731-260
Spacecraft's solar polar pass - 14/10/01
First glimpse inside a sunspot - 06/11/01
'Sun catcher' nears destination - 16/11/01
Sun unleashes monster eruption - 04/01/02
Deep secrets of star birth revealed - 09/01/02
Here comes the Sun... again - 23/01/02
New orbiter to make X-ray flicks of sun - 05/02/02
Resurgent sun peaks for second time - 06/02/02
Spacecraft chases solar flares - 06/02/02
Icy insight into star birth - 09/04/02
Strange stars suggest new kind of matter - 10/04/02 two presumed neutron stars, RXJ1856 and 3C58, might actually be "quark stars"
Neutrino experiment confirms Sun theories - 22/04/02
Cosmic catastrophe 'a certainty' - 08/05/02
Hubble's 'Pillars of Creation' are fading - 14/05/02
Distant star makes music - 18/05/02
Storm-like activity found on distant brown dwarfs - 24/05/02
Astronomers find 'winking' star - 20/06/02 being eclipsed in a way never seen before - not by another star or planet, but by dust grains, rocks and maybe even asteroids orbiting in a clumpy circumstellar disc
Sun's spectacular show - 02/07/02
Hubble picks over star's demise - 03/07/02 Cassiopeia A
Sun gives up secrets - 02/09/02 Unravelling its twisted magnetic field
'Oldest' star found in galaxy - 31/10/02 HE0107-5240 is a rarity because unlike younger stars it is virtually metal-free
New Photos of Sun are Most Detailed Ever - 13/11/02
Fifth closest star discovered - 18/02/03
Star dies in giant gamma ray burst - 20/03/03
Looking for the first stars - 29/04/03 The Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft (Galex), designed to explore star formation when the Universe was young, has been launched from a Pegasus rocket
Strange star puzzles astronomers - 13/06/03 Achernar, otherwise known as Alpha Eridani, the 9th brightest star in the sky, is one of the most distorted stars ever observed by astronomers. It is shaped like a child's spinning top
First stars had no planets - 21/07/03
Astronomers count the stars - 22/07/03
Black hole hums B flat - 10/09/03
Exploding star hunters make history - 16/09/03
Star devours planets - 17/09/03
Hubble chases exploding stars - 01/10/03
Sandy grains circle young star - 09/10/03
Our Sun's regular mood swings - 28/10/03
Major solar flare in progress - 28/10/03
Hubble observes early starbirth - 30/10/03
New star emerges from dust cocoon - 12/02/04
A Valentine rose from the Cosmos - 13/02/04
Diamond star thrills astronomers - 16/02/04
Sun's massive explosion upgraded - 17/03/04
Hubble telescope snares space bug - 30/04/04
Europe plans lab beneath the Alps - 09/07/04
Nasa rethinks probe to the Sun - 22/07/04
Scientists track incoming probe - 01/09/04
Genesis to return its Sun cargo - 07/09/04
Solar capsule crashes into Earth - 08/09/04
Scientists 'hopeful' for Genesis - 09/09/04
Genesis data 'retrieved intact' - 10/09/04
The hunt for cosmic blasts' secret - 25/10/04
Supernova produces cosmic rays - 04/11/04
Nasa launches cosmic blast hunter - 20/11/04
Three largest stars identified - 11/01/05
Cosmic birth theory gets support - 25/01/05
Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way - 18/02/05
Genesis crash may yield results - 03/03/05
Star 'gnome' is nuclear surprise - 04/03/05
Upper limit placed on star growth - 09/03/05
Telescope sees birth of stars - 06/04/05
Ray burst is extinction suspect - 11/04/05
Relic star poses cosmic puzzles - 14/04/05
Scientists baffled by speed of Sun 'storm' - 31/05/05
Star experiences life after death - 09/06/05 Light echo spreads out from supernova remnant
Hubble finds mass of white dwarf - 14/12/04 Sirius B
Astronomers discover peek-a-boo stars - 15/02/06
Mysterious space explosion - 24/02/06
New kind of space blast seen not far from Earth - 24/02/06
Solar flares may pack a bigger punch - 07/03/06
Merged stars whip up super fields - 03/04/06
'Dead star' erupts for big show - 07/04/06
Mystery of explosive star solved - 20/07/06
Astronomers glimpse exploded star - 23/07/06
Dwarf survives in stellar furnace - 02/08/06
Supernova captured in 'real time' - 30/08/06
Probe to study mighty explosions - 09/09/06
Exploding star 'breaks the rules' - 21/09/06
Japan launches Sun 'microscope' - 22/09/06
Spacecraft to make 3D Sun movies - 25/10/06
In formative years, the sun had sisters - 25/10/06
Sun probe sends back first data - 03/11/06
Telescope catches 'monster flare' - 07/11/06
Telescope captures double blast - 22/11/06
Probe's close-up of Sun eruption - 29/11/06
Cosmic bang baffles boffins - 25/12/06
Star may have four magnetic poles - 09/01/07
New stars offer clue to the past - 10/01/07
Spacecraft return Sun panoramas - 02/03/07
'Pipe organ' plays above the Sun - 20/04/07
Dwarf stars emit powerful pulse - 20/04/07
Spacecraft return 3D Sun pictures - 23/04/07
Star dies in brightest supernova - 08/05/07 SN 2006gy
Secrets of Sun-like star probed - 01/06/07
Cold object delights astronomers - 04/06/07 with a surface temperature of just 600-700 Kelvin, J0034-00 is the coldest solitary brown dwarf ever seen, according to the British team that discovered it
Colossal tail trails dying star - 15/08/07
Rare dead star found near Earth - 20/08/07 Calvera
Speeding Star to Escape from Milky Way - 28/11/07 neutron star RX J0822-4300 is racing out of our Milky Way Galaxy at about 3 million mph