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This course provides a graduate-level introduction to stellar astrophysics. It covers a variety of topics, ranging from stellar structure and evolution to galactic dynamics and dark matter.
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![Picture of a star orbiting a black hole.](/courses/8-901-astrophysics-i-spring-2006/9a67f4cef2d9dbe9258bd862f4145b02_8-901s06.jpg)
An artist’s vision of an exotic binary system illustrates how matter is drawn from the roughly solar-mass star into the black hole. (Image courtesy of M. Weiss (CXC), NASA on the Astronomy Picture of the Day Web site.)