Stars: Creation, destruction and impact on the universe

[moonkey]

Hi all,

Doing a project for 1st year special topics physics module in university and we're thinking of doing the project on stars. Just wondering if anyone might know of any good literature on the sublject that we could look into as part of our research.

We have until mid January to do the project so we haven't really fine tuned what specific area we're going to stick with but we're thinking along the lines of how stars help shape the universe, ie. Black holes, galaxies, solar systems, different types of stars and their immediate and long term effects on immediate and nearby astronomical bodies.

Also if anyone can offer an interesting aspect of this topic to look into I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for any help received

 

[Kracatoan]

Element synthesis and how the type of star dictates what is synthesised, and how that determines whether or not life could evolve in a star system formed in the leftover nebula.