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Fossil Stars: White Dwarfs 
  
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G. Goebel
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This site discusses white dwarfs: their history, their structure and evolution, how they can be detected, and how they help to determine the age of the universe.
https://vc.airvectors.net/tastgal_05.html
CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars 
  
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L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
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The software for this exercise presents students with a radio telescope they can point at a source in the sky, viewing the output of the radio receiver on a graphic display that…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html
White Dwarf Stars 
  
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Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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This NASA site provides information about white dwarfs, produced when stars like our Sun exhaust their nuclear fuel and blow off much of their mass. The site contains an explanation…
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dwarfs2.html
Moments of Discovery: A Pulsar Discovery 
  
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Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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This online exhibit from the American Institute of Physics contains the history of the discovery of the first optical pulsar in the Crab Nebula. It includes both a transcription of…
https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/mod/pulsar/pulsar1/01.html
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars 
  
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Editor: K. Lehman
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Robert Nemiroff's collection of animations take users on voyages to the surface of neutron stars and black holes. Text and simulations explore the curvature of space in extreme gravity.
https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
Fossil Stars: Neutron Stars & Black Holes 
  
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This site discusses neutron stars and black holes: their discovery, characteristics, and evolution, and how they can be detected.
https://vc.airvectors.net/tastgal_06.html
Timing an X-ray Pulsar 
  
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Publisher: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
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This activity asks students to analyze both the x-ray light curve from a pulsar in the crab nebula and the Fourier Transform of the light curve. From this students must find the…
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html

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