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20 Ways the World Could End 
  
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Publisher: Discover
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This article from Discover magazine overviews twenty ways the planet could experience mass extinction or worse. Examples include asteroid impact, alien invasion, and gamma-ray bursts.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-ways-the-world-could-en...
First Supernova Discovered with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics 
  
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This press release from the Gemini Observatory covers the discovery of a supernova using laser adaptive optics. Laser guide adaptive optics help eliminate atmospheric noise from…
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11226
High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week 
  
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M. Corcoran
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Each week this NASA/Goddard/Smithsonian site provides a new high energy astrophysics image, (captured in the extreme ultraviolet, x-rays, or gamma rays). You can get information…
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/heapow.html
Chandra Observes Cosmic Traffic Pile-Up In Energetic Quasar Jet 
  
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Publisher: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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This Chandra press release discusses the Chandra X-ray image of quasar 3C 273. A powerful jet of energy is seen coming from the quasar, very fast at first and slowing down rapidly,…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/00_releases/press_110600_3c273.html
What would it look like to fall into a black hole? 
  
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This NewScientist article covers the simulation research of two University of Colorado physicists on what an unfortunate person falling into a black hole would see. The article…
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16885-what-would-it-look-like-to-...
Stellar Evolution 
  
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Publisher: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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This Chandra X-Ray Observatory page links to several activities and articles on stellar evolution. It includes an interactive Flash activity featuring simulations of different-mass…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/
Death Star: A Bad Day In the Milky Way 
  
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This PBS article describes gamma-ray bursts and how they were discovered. It also explains what would happen to the Earth should a gamma-ray burst strike it.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gamma/milkyway.html
WMAP's Universe: The Life and Death of Stars 
  
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This NASA site describes how stars live and die. It explains stellar life on the "main sequence" and includes links to four different ways a star can die. Images illustrate stellar…
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/rel_stars.html
Spectra 
  
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J. Kaler
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See this site, from the University of Illinois, for a broad overview of the spectra of stars and other astronomical objects. You can find out about many related subjects, including…
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/spectra.html
Supernova 1987a 
  
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C. Nave
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This Hyperphysics page hosts a description of Supernova 1987a. It includes the light curve, a photograph of the unusual remnant, and a graph showing the neutrino volley that…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/sn87a.html
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