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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- appreciate how stars end their lives
- understand how planetary nebulae and supernova remnants form
- calculate the physical properties of white dwarfs and neutron stars
- understand the properties of electron-degenerate and neutron-degenerate matter
- calculate the energetics of supernovae explosions.

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