Astronomy Talks – The Stars and their Life Cycles
Tuesday 24th November 2026 from 19:00pm to 20:00pm
Princess Alexandra Auditorium
Yarm School, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS15 9EJ
Join Go Stargazing astronomer Dr Fred Stevenson for this one of a series of fascinating lectures in the Friarage Theatre at the Princess Alexandria Auditorium.
The Stars and their Life Cycles – the formation of stars, their life cycles and their various endpoints as ‘stellar remnants’.
A dark night sky full of stars is an awesome sight – but what are stars and what are they made of? In this talk we will consider how astronomers have answered these questions.
We will discuss the life cycles of the stars from their formation in vast clouds of dust and gas to their endings as various forms of remnant – white dwarfs, neutron stars and the enigmatic black holes.
The Sun is a star and so we will be talking about our own origins and potentially endings!
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