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Blowing Up Stars

For his discoveries about the lives and deaths of stars, the exotic physics of black holes and the origin of chemical elements, UA Regents’ Professor David Arnett has been honored with the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship.

What happens when a star dies? How does a black hole form? What makes the chemical elements that form the building blocks of stars, planets and living beings? (more…)

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