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The Life and Death of Stars

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.456

A detailed look at the evolution of stars from birth to death.

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The Evolution of Stars

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4.html

Lectures on the main sequence, red giants, stellar clusters and variable stars. Semi-technical.

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Stellar Evolution (a la Chez Stella)

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/49/chezstella.html

The Universe in the Classroom: Basic school lesson introducing stellar evolution metaphorically through a restaurant setting.

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Stellar Evolution

http://www.astunit.com/tutorials/stellar.htm

Stars and the Hertzprung-Russell diagram (where a star's absolute luminosity is plotted against its surface temperature).

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Stellar Evolution

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

Article from Wikipedia providing an account of the birth, life and death of stars.

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Starclock: Stellar Evolution Software

http://leo.astronomy.cz/sclock/sclock.html

Starclock is a program for DOS that animates the evolution of stars on the HR diagram.

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Life and Birth of Stars

http://physics.gmu.edu/~jevans/astr103/CourseNotes/ECText/ch17_txt.htm

The physical structure of stars, energy generation, mathematical models, main-sequence stars and the birth of stars.

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