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    In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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    Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
    classifying stars into spectral types. The modern version of the stellar classification scheme was developed by Annie J. Cannon during the early 1900s....
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    between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities and their stellar classifications or effective temperatures. The diagram was created independently...
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    Astrophysics (redirect from Stellar physics)
    1885, Edward C. Pickering undertook an ambitious program of stellar spectral classification at Harvard College Observatory, in which a team of woman computers...
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  • Class M (or M-class) planet, a classification used in the Star Trek media franchise Class M star, a stellar classification Class M, a driver's license,...
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    science fiction § Planet types Stellar classification Sub-Neptune Substellar object Sudarsky's gas giant classification The terms "inferior planet" and...
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    called the main-sequence stars on the diagram. A refined scheme for stellar classification was published in 1943 by William Wilson Morgan and Philip Childs...
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    over time. When its resulting stellar classification enters a range known as the instability strip—typically at stellar class A—the outer envelope can...
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  • BGCFs in different networks Morgan-Keenan (MK) spectral classification, a stellar classification system based on spectral lines Megakelvin (MK), an SI unit...
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    as reference points for deep-space imaging. Astrographs used for stellar classification sometimes consist of two identical telescopes on the same mount...
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    She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International...
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  • Nachos Stellar classification sequence: O B A F G K M R N S Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart! Revised stellar classification sequence:...
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  • scientific classification system Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses Galaxy morphological classification Stellar classification Categorization...
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    Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of its lifetime and how it can lead to the creation of a new star. Depending...
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  • List of astronomy acronyms Astronomical symbols Stellar classification Galaxy morphological classification List of astronomical catalogues Glossary of astronomy...
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    reddening from the interstellar medium. In the current system of stellar classification, stars are grouped according to temperature, with the massive, very...
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  • star or bluestar may refer to: O-type star (a.k.a. blue star), a stellar classification Linckia laevigata, a sea star from the Indian and West Pacific Oceans...
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  • Y-chromosomal Adam and Haplogroup A (Y-DNA) A0, a subdivision in stellar classification A0, sometimes written as 0xA0, is the hexadecimal representation...
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  • extinguisher Class D league, a classification of minor league baseball from 1902 to 1962 Class D star, a stellar classification Class D, IP addresses on a...
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    the revised MK spectral classification system. The secondary star is a G-type main-sequence star, with a stellar classification of G2V. It is about four...
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  • Yellow star may refer to: A yellow star in stellar classification A yellow badge, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to wear on their clothes Any plant...
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  • forth. Between 1910 and 1915, new discoveries increased interest in stellar classification, and work on the Henry Draper Catalogue itself started in 1911....
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    Retrieved 2009-09-21. Gray, C. Richard O.; Corbally, J. (2009). Stellar Spectral Classification. Princeton University Press. pp. 115–122. ISBN 978-0691125114...
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    component is a blue-white hued B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B0.5V or B1V. It has 19±7 times the mass of the Sun (M☉) and...
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    development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was...
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  • defunct class in minor league baseball in North America Class C stellar classification for a carbon star Class C drugs, under the Misuse of Drugs Act (disambiguation)...
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    System Stellar classification Stellar classification § Class G Internal structure Standard Solar Model Solar core Radiation zone Convection zone Stellar atmosphere...
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    harbor magnetic dynamos. As a consequence, because they do not have strong stellar winds, they lack a means to generate X-ray emissions. The revised Yerkes...
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    dozen red giants and its hottest surviving main sequence star is of stellar classification B9 V. The abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium,...
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  • (nuclear weapon), a British nuclear weapon Yellow sun, a type of stellar classification "Yellow Sun", a song by The Raconteurs from their album Broken Boy...
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