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Links
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.
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.
NASA: White Dwarfs Introduction
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dwarfs.html
Easy to understand and includes images
Echelle Spectra for White Dwarfs
http://vega.lpl.arizona.edu/newsips/
Contains final processed IUE SWP echelle spectra for all 55 hot white dwarfs
Cosmic census finds universe full of brown dwarfs
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/08/23/hubble.brown.dwarves/
Details the surprising amount of brown dwarf stars in the universe. CNN article
Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Brown Dwarf Stars
http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/browndwarf_fg.html
Introduction and data on brown dwarf stars.
Brown Dwarf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf
Online encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on these sub-stellar objects.
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
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.
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.