Modern astronomy has revealed that stars experience a life-cycle, which begins with birth in a cloud of hydrogen, and ends as the star becomes a burnt out cinder called a White Dwarf.
In this episode of Seven Ages of Starlight, the epic story of the stars continues with an examination of the final stages in the life-cycle of stars. From the fourth age of their cycle, the White Dwarf, to their spectacular death throes, the supernovae.And, of course, black holes, thought to be the most mysterious objects in space.
