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This document discusses the life cycle of stars. It explains that stars are born from nebulae of gas and dust when the temperature rises to millions of degrees. Stars are made primarily of hydrogen, which they fuse to emit light and heat. A star's lifespan depends on its mass - larger stars live faster lives because they use their fuel quickly. When stars die, their remains may expand and cool into a white dwarf or neutron star, or explode violently as a supernova, leaving behind dust from which new stars and planets can form. The sun is around middle-aged at 4.5 billion years.
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Stars are huge spheres of hot glowing gas that produce light and energy through nuclear fusion. They are born in cold clouds of gas and dust called nebulas, which collapse under gravity and heat up. There are many types of stars including red dwarfs, yellow stars like our Sun, giant stars, and massive blue giants. Nearly all stars belong to galaxies which range in shape and can contain billions of stars. Most stars end their lives by expanding into red giants and shedding their outer layers, leaving behind dense white dwarfs or black holes if they are especially massive.
Life of stars
This document discusses the life cycle of stars. It explains that stars are born from nebulae of gas and dust when the temperature rises to millions of degrees. Stars are made primarily of hydrogen, which they fuse to emit light and heat. A star's lifespan depends on its mass - larger stars live faster lives because they use their fuel quickly. When stars die, their remains may expand and cool into a white dwarf or neutron star, or explode violently as a supernova, scattering dust that can form new stars and planets. The sun is around middle-aged at 4.5 billion years.
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Stars are giant balls of gas that produce light and heat through nuclear fusion at their cores. They vary greatly in size, from dwarf stars like our Sun to massive supergiant stars over 200 times the Sun's diameter. Stars end their lives in different ways depending on their mass - smaller stars become white dwarfs, while larger stars explode as supernovae or collapse into neutron stars and other compact objects.
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The document describes three main types of stars: red dwarf stars, yellow stars, and blue giant stars. Red dwarf stars are smaller and less massive than our Sun. They burn fuel slowly and can live for trillions of years, though they are not very bright. Yellow stars like our Sun are medium-sized and burn fuel at a medium rate, living for around 10 billion years before expanding. Blue giant stars are large, burn fuel very quickly, and only live for 10,000-100,000 years but shine very brightly across great distances.
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A star is a ball of plasma held together by gravity that undergoes nuclear fusion at its core, releasing electromagnetic radiation. Stars exist along a spectrum from hot, blue stars to cooler, red stars and can be classified based on their temperature, luminosity, and color. A star's life cycle begins as a contracting nebula and progresses through stages such as the main sequence, red giant, planetary nebula, and white dwarf before ending as a neutron star or black hole.
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This document discusses the life cycle of stars. It explains that stars are born from nebulae of gas and dust when the temperature rises to millions of degrees. Stars are made primarily of hydrogen, which they fuse to emit light and heat. A star's lifespan depends on its mass - larger stars live faster lives because they use their fuel quickly. When stars die, their remains may expand and cool into a white dwarf or neutron star, or explode violently as a supernova, scattering dust that can form new stars and planets. The sun is around middle-aged at 4.5 billion years.
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Stars are giant balls of gas that produce light and heat through nuclear fusion at their cores. They vary greatly in size, from dwarf stars like our Sun to massive supergiant stars over 200 times the Sun's diameter. Stars end their lives in different ways depending on their mass - smaller stars become white dwarfs, while larger stars explode as supernovae or collapse into neutron stars and other compact objects.
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The document describes three main types of stars: red dwarf stars, yellow stars, and blue giant stars. Red dwarf stars are smaller and less massive than our Sun. They burn fuel slowly and can live for trillions of years, though they are not very bright. Yellow stars like our Sun are medium-sized and burn fuel at a medium rate, living for around 10 billion years before expanding. Blue giant stars are large, burn fuel very quickly, and only live for 10,000-100,000 years but shine very brightly across great distances.
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Stars form from collapsing clouds of gas and dust found in nebulae. A star's life cycle depends on its mass - smaller stars less than 3 times the Sun's mass will spend most of their existence on the main sequence fusing hydrogen. Larger stars evolve more quickly, becoming red giants and eventually exploding as supernovae, leaving behind neutron stars or black holes.
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Stars are formed from clouds of dust and gas collapsing under gravity. They spend most of their life fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores, glowing from the heat and pressure of nuclear fusion. When stars run out of fuel to burn in their cores, they die - smaller stars may become white dwarfs, while larger stars explode as supernovae. The material from exploded stars then disperses to form new dust clouds, starting the next generation of star formation.
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- Main sequence stars like our Sun spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores.
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- Binary stars are two gravitationally bound stars that orbit a common center of mass.
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Stars are giant balls of gas, mostly hydrogen, that undergo nuclear fusion. They vary in characteristics like color, temperature, size, brightness, and chemical composition. Color depends on temperature, from red stars at around 2000°C up to blue stars at over 50,000°C. Distance is measured in lightyears, with nearby stars like Sirius being 8.5 lightyears away and more distant stars hundreds or thousands of lightyears. The magnitude scale classifies brightness, with first magnitude stars being the brightest. Spectroscopes are used to analyze a star's spectrum and reveal details about its composition.
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Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defects
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Mending Clothing to Support Sustainable Fashion_CIMaR 2024.pdf
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Applied Science: Thermodynamics, Laws & Methodology.pdf
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
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Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths Forward
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
Direct Seeded Rice - Climate Smart Agriculture
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PPT on Direct Seeded Rice presented at the three-day 'Training and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies in South Asia' workshop on April 22, 2024.
Randomised Optimisation Algorithms in DAPHNE
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Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024 – ASHPC24, Seeblickhotel Grundlsee in Austria, 10–13 June 2024
https://ashpc.eu/
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
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Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
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Life of stars
- 1. LIFE OF STARS BY: JULIA BERMEJO, ANGELA ÁLVARO AND ANDREA LÓPEZ
- 2. STARS • A star is a giant ball of gas at very high temperature which emit their own light. A star shines and sends its energy as light and heat The Sun is the star we know the best and it is the closer to the Earth. Stars have a beginning and an end: they are born, they develop and they die.
- 3. THE LIFE OF STARS • A stars begins its life as a nebula. A nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust. When nebulae come together, their temperatura rises and when they reach several million degrees, a star is born • Stars are basically made of hydrogen which is the fuel they use to emit light and heat. • A each has its own lifespan. They live for millions or billions of years, but they don’t always shine. • Stars may be young, middle or old. Those with a lot of mass live less because they produce a lot of energy and quickly spend their gas reserves. Orion Nebula
- 4. A star can die in different ways, depending on its mass: • Mediun sized and small stars, like the Sun, cool down and expand as they use up the hydrogen in their core, until they are extinguished. • Bigger stars dissapear in a final explosion. Their remains are sent into space and as they cool down they form cosmic dust. Planets are made of that cosmic dust and so are all living creatures. The sun is approximately 4,500 million years old, half way throught its kife cycle.
- 5. BLACK HOLES • A star with a large mass may sink within itself and produce a black hole. All around, the stars are break and the gas is absorbed, can even absorbed light its strong gravity.
- 7. Protostar
- 10. White Dwarf Star
- 11. Red Dwarf Star
- 12. NEUTRON STARS
- 13. Supergiant Stars
- 15. Colors of stars • Stars have different colors. You can tell the temperature of a star by its color. Stars with more energy have a shimmering blue luster. Other stars, like the sun, goodbye yellow. They have an average temperature. The coldest have a red
- 16. SIZE AND MOVEMENTS OF STARS • The size and brightness of a star are closely related. Big stars are generally brighter than medium sized ones and these are brighter tan small ones. The nearer a star is the brighter we see it. Stars are not fixed, they move very fast in relation to each other, at about 72,000 km/h