• The Helium Core

  • Giants and Supergiants on the HR Diagram

  • Examples of Stellar Clusters

  • A Time Dependent Cluster HR Diagram (load ClusterTurnoff.swf)
    (there's a small error in this animation; can you find it?)

  • Examples of Real Cluster Snapshot HR Diagrams

  • The Post Main Sequence Evolution of a Low Mass Star

  • The Interior of a One Solar Mass Star over time (load HiLoStars.swf)

  • Planetary Nebulae and Sirius B, a White Dwarf

  • The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the Ring Nebula Wow!

  • The Death of the Sun and the End of the Earth

  • The CNO Hydrogen Fusion Cycle

  • Shrek tells us about the interior structure of a fully evolved high mass star - Donkey doesn't get it.

  • The Interior of a Fully Evolved Massive Star - to scale

  • Supergiant Stars on the HR Diagram

  • The Interior of a Twenty Solar Mass Star over time (load HiLoStars.swf)

  • Iron, the most stable nucleus

  • Inverse Beta Decay - electron and proton making neutron and neutrino.

  • An artist's depiction of what a Type II supernova does to the rest of the star

  • Typical Supernovae Lightcurves

  • A bright Type Ia Supernova in another galaxy

  • The Crab Nebula, a Remnant from the 1054 AD Supernova; seen by Hubble and Webb

  • Supernova 1987a Before and After

  • The Interior of a Fully Evolved Massive Star - to scale

  • A Beautiful Image of Orion and Betelgeuse

  • Betelgeuse SN - How the Universe Works . . . A really excellent summary (~9 min); play at least to ~2m30s
    This is a clip from an episode of How the Universe Works. You can watch the Full Video on Daily Motion. It's a bit dated, but pretty good