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The Life Cycles of Stars

November, 2009

By Tom Koonce

Antelope Valley Astronomy Club, Inc.

Lancaster, California

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall…�  This is certainly true of stars.  When single stars condense from a star forming nebula, their life history is pre-written based upon their initial mass and the cloud’s composition.  High mass stars burn very hot, have very short [...]

The Galileoscope In Action

When I first heard about the Galileoscope project which seeks to get a ‘good’ telescope into people’s hands for $20, I was, to say the least, a bit dubious about their claims.  I wasn’t expecting much, but for $20 and an acknowledged addiction to telescopes, I took a chance and ordered one from their website:   https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/

The [...]