The life and death of stars


2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. In the Natural Sciences' quarterly journal, Brazilian astronomer Beatriz Barbuy reveals some of the secrets of the life – and death – of stars, including how to tell their approximate age and what fate lies in store for the Earth as our own Sun ages. (More)

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_NEW-News and ArticleTwo astrophysicists win Kalinga Prize for Popularization of Science@ 30-10-2009 8:50 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleGalilean Nights: 22 - 24 October 2009@ 21-10-2009 10:00 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleGalilean Nights@ 20-10-2009 12:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleSouth Eastern European Practical School on Spectroscopy for Young Researchers@ 04-10-2009 6:00 pm UNESCOVenice PRESS
_NEW-News and ArticleAstrophysics & Astrodynamics in the Balkan Countries@ 23-09-2009 6:35 pm UNESCOVenice PRESS
_NEW-News and ArticleInternational symposium “Astronomy and its Instruments. Before and After Galileo”@ 23-09-2009 5:00 pm UNESCOVenice Press
_NEW-News and ArticleTelescope donation from Explore Scientific@ 08-09-2009 6:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleSecond Iberoamerica Graduate School of Astrobiology: Origins from the Big Bang to Civilizations@ 31-08-2009 10:00 am UNESCO Montevideo Office
_NEW-News and Article21st Century longest solar eclipse@ 22-07-2009 3:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleWe walked on the Moon@ 21-07-2009 10:10 am A World of Science, Vol. 7, N° 3 (July-September 2009)
_NEW-News and Article"Cosmos" - a journey to the ends of the Universe@ 16-07-2009 1:30 pm
_NEW-News and Article12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting@ 15-07-2009 10:00 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleThe essential is invisible to our eyes@ 01-07-2009 6:20 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleGeorge Fitzgerald Smoot, Nobel laureat in physics@ 29-06-2009 5:00 pm
_NEW-News and ArticleDark Side of the Universe: Toward a New Cosmological Paradigm@ 29-06-2009 8:00 am
_NEW-News and Article“Invisible Universe”@ 25-06-2009 7:00 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleIYA2009: At the Edge of Solar System@ 20-05-2009 4:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleStar Party in Meudon@ 15-05-2009 1:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and Article100 Hours of Astronomy@ 02-04-2009 8:00 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleOrder a "Galileoscope™"@ 10-03-2009 3:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleGLOBE at Night 2009@ 05-03-2009 4:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleThe Rôle of Astronomy in Society and Culture@ 19-01-2009 5:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleOpening Ceremony: IYA2009@ 17-01-2009 3:00 pm
_NEW-News and ArticlePress Conference: Launch of the International Year of Astronomy@ 10-01-2009 3:00 pm
_NEW-News and ArticleAstronomy at the Crossroads of Science and Culture 09-01-2009 3:00 pm
_NEW-News and Article"Sun Rings" with the Kronos Quartet@ 06-01-2009 5:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleA Big Year for Astronomy@ 05-01-2009 9:00 am UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleUNESCO Montevideo launches a website on the occasion of IYA2009@ 30-12-2008 3:00 pm UNESCO SC
_NEW-News and ArticleCatherine Cesarsky : This is the golden age of astronomy@ 16-12-2008 5:25 pm
_NEW-News and ArticleUNESCO designated as the lead agency for the International Year of Astronomy 2009@ 03-01-2008 7:00 pm UNESCO SC


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