The  Milky Way is a vast agglomeration containing hundreds of billions of stars and planets and enormous amounts of gas and dust, within which new stars are born. However, no one star is exactly the same as another. In other words, each star has different physical traits, and their evolution and eventual demise are determined by their initial mass. So, how do stars form? How will the Sun die? What are supernova explosions, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes? How did we discover the massive black hole lurking in the Milky Way center? Our voyage among the stars in the Galaxy is about to begin…

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