Discover the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a key tool graphing the brightness of stars against color in astronomy. That's really funny, and I wish I had thought of it. The vertical axis is fame, as ...

A simple diagram, which celebrates its centennial this year, continues to serve as the most essential conceptual tool in stellar astrophysics Modern astronomy paints a vivid picture of the universe ...

The film discusses the Sun, our nearest star, detailing how astronomers study it through solar observatories. It explains the Sun's characteristics, including its size, temperature, and composition, ...

HR Diagram by GeneSmith http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/HR.html A good, short summary of the HR diagram HR Diagram and Stellar Ages http://www.britannica.com ...

Stars come in different types, and most stars will change types throughout their lifetimes. Stars are often organized using what's known as the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram. Stars like Earth’s ...

IT has been suggested several times 1 that the flare activity observed in flash and U V Ceti stars is of a nature similar to that of solar flares. In this communication I shall adhere to this point of ...

We have determined accurate MK types for 26 of the brightest stars in the field of NGC 6231. We found one emission-line star with a weak shell, one star with in strong (already known), four stars with ...