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The Fate of Massive Stars

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_5/notes19.html

The origin and general characteristics of white dwarfs. High School level.

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Royal Observatory Greenwich: White Dwarfs

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/stars/white-dwarfs

Explains stellar stability and evolution, electron degeneracy, the observation and evolution of white dwarfs, and the white dwarf Sirius B.

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Echelle Spectra for White Dwarfs

http://vega.lpl.arizona.edu/newsips/

Contains final processed IUE SWP echelle spectra for all 55 hot white dwarfs

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Brown Dwarf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

Online encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on these sub-stellar objects.

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Astronomy 162: White Dwarfs and Novae

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/novae/novae.html

Short on text, but contains excellent images, diagrams and a table of the brightest white dwarfs

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Accreting White Dwarfs

http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/Research/SAX/core_program/node27.html

Deep research from the TeSRE Institute - an Italian body who analyze observations in the IR, optical, X-ray and gamma ray energy bands.

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A Brown Dwarf Solar flare

http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2000/00-206.html

Article on the surprise solar flare of a brown dwarf star detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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