Crash Course Astronomy - Season 1 Episode 30 White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae

Name: Crash Course Astronomy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 24 Dec 2015
Rating: 8.00
Cast: Phil Plait

2015-12-24 12 minutes.

8.00 1 votes

Documentary astronomy

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1 Season 1 Jan 15, 2015

1 - 1

Introduction to Astronomy Jan 15, 2015
1 - 2

Naked Eye Observations Jan 22, 2015
1 - 3

Cycles in the Sky Jan 29, 2015
1 - 4

Moon Phases Feb 05, 2015
1 - 5

Eclipses Feb 13, 2015
1 - 6

Telescopes Feb 19, 2015
1 - 7

The Gravity of the Situation Feb 26, 2015
1 - 8

Tides Mar 05, 2015
1 - 9

Introduction to the Solar System Mar 12, 2015
1 - 10

The Sun Mar 19, 2015
1 - 11

The Earth Apr 02, 2015
1 - 12

The Moon Apr 09, 2015
1 - 13

Mercury Apr 16, 2015
1 - 14

Venus Apr 23, 2015
1 - 15

Mars Apr 30, 2015
1 - 16

Jupiter May 08, 2015
1 - 17

Jupiter's Moons May 14, 2015
1 - 18

Saturn May 21, 2015
1 - 19

Uranus & Neptune May 28, 2015
1 - 20

Asteroids Jun 04, 2015
1 - 21

Comets Jun 18, 2015
1 - 22

The Oort Cloud Jun 25, 2015
1 - 23

Meteors Jul 02, 2015
1 - 24

Light Jul 09, 2015
1 - 25

Distances Jul 16, 2015
1 - 26

Stars Jul 23, 2015
1 - 27

Exoplanets Jul 30, 2015
1 - 28

Brown Dwarfs Aug 13, 2015
1 - 29

Low Mass Stars Aug 20, 2015
1 - 30

White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae Aug 27, 2015
1 - 31

High Mass Stars Sep 10, 2015
1 - 32

Neutron Stars Sep 17, 2015
1 - 33

Black Holes Sep 25, 2015
1 - 34

Binary and Multiple Stars Oct 01, 2015
1 - 35

Star Clusters Oct 08, 2015
1 - 36

Nebulae Oct 15, 2015
1 - 37

The Milky Way Oct 22, 2015
1 - 38

Galaxies, Part 1 Oct 29, 2015
1 - 39

Galaxies, Part 2 Nov 05, 2015
1 - 40

Gamma-Ray Bursts Nov 12, 2015
1 - 41

Dark Matter Nov 19, 2015
1 - 42

The Big Bang, Cosmology Part 1 Nov 26, 2015
1 - 43

Dark Energy, Cosmology Part 2 Dec 03, 2015
1 - 44

A Brief History of the Universe Dec 10, 2015
1 - 45

Deep Time Dec 17, 2015
1 - 46

Everything, The Universe...And Life Dec 24, 2015

Overview

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.

Year 2015

Studio YouTube

Director

Crew Phil Plait (Writer)

Popularity 0.8344

Language English