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...Introduction - In science, people encounter a huge range of scales both in space and time. These scales can be difficult to appreciate because they are beyond the range that the human body can perceive. For example, it is possible to measure timescales that are much longer than a person will ever live, and items that are far too small to see. In this short course, to...

...Introduction - In this course, you will explore the exotic end-points in the lives of most stars – namely white dwarfs and neutron stars. To do this we consider the properties of so-called degenerate matter and how these properties govern the later stages of stellar evolution. To set the scene, we begin by outlining the life cycle of stars in general, before moving onto...