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Luminosity

How do we know how massive stars are?
TBC

As we discussed in the previous vlog our understanding of stars is still incomplete, but there are areas which we are very confident on what we know.

In general we tend to know three things about stars: their brightness, their spectrum, and if they are close enough or of known luminosity, we can also know their distance.

8 July 2015
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