Today Phil’s explaining the stars and how they can be categorized using their spectra.
Together with their distance, this provides a wealth of information about them including their luminosity, size, and temperature. The
HR diagram plots stars’ luminosity versus temperature, and most stars fall along the main sequence, where they live most of their lives.
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Table of Contents
Stars Can Be Categorized Using Their
Spectra 1:32
Spectra With
Distance Can
Identify Luminosity, Size, and
Temperature 5:20
The
HR Diagram Plots Luminosity vs Temperature 6:33
Most Stars
Fall Along the
Main Sequence 7:16
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS
Stars http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/703724main_potw1244a
.jpg [credit:
ESA/
Hubble &
NASA]
Spitzer Spectrum http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details
.php?id=PIA03242 [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
Leiden/
SRON]
Sun spectrum https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0600
.html [credit:
N.A.Sharp,
NOAO/
NSO/
Kitt Peak FTS/
AURA/
NSF]
Annie Jump Cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon#/media/
File:Annie_Jump_Cannon_1922_Portrait.jpg [credit:
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper]
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin#/media/File:Cecilia_Helena_Payne_Gaposchkin_(1900-1979)_(3).jpg [credit:
Smithsonian Institution]
OBAFGKM https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0649.html [credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF]
Betelgeuse http://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/eso0927e/ [credit:
ESO/
Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment:
Davide De
Martin]
Sirius https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_468.html [credit: NASA, ESA, H.
Bond (STScI) and M.
Barstow (
University of Leicester)]
Solar AM0 spectrum with visible spectrum background https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_AM0_spectrum_with_visible_spectrum_background_(en)
.png [credit: Danmichaelo,
Wikimedia Commons]
Blue sky http://www.pexels.com/photo/sky-sunny-clouds-cloudy-3768/ [credit: Skitter
Photo]
Hawaii sunset photo [credit:
Phil Plait]
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_-_Hertzsprung-Russell_Diagram_(by).jpg [credit: ESO]
- published: 23 Jul 2015
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