Key Words

main sequence lifetime
red giant
white dwarf
planetary nebula
horizontal branch
asymptotic giant branch
triple alpha process
electron degeneracy
fermions
bosons
exclusion principle
thermonuclear runaway
helium flash
helium burning shell
superwind
Chandrasekhar mass limit
nova
Cepheid variables
RR-Lyrae variables
pulsation timescales
hydrodynamical response times
long period red variables
instability strip
supergiant
supernova, type I, type II
gravitational core collapse
shock wave
neutron star
black hole
nuclear density
progenitor star
supernova remnants
nucleosynthesis
iron peak
radiative capture
s-process
r-process
neutron capture
beta decay
chart of the nuclides
beta stability valley