AS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Main Sequence
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In this lesson we first learn about the. Hertzsprung-russell diagram, a seemingly funny name for a very important diagram. It is such an important diagram that it is normally referred to as simply the h-r diagram. We will spend at least half of this lesson discussing the valuable graph that plots the luminosity of stars against their temperature. We then take a quick look at the family of stars before delving into a discussion of what s involved in the birth of stars. Here you will learn that the most important part of building a star is the mass of the nebula from which the star is born. We will spend some considerable time studying and understanding something called the h-r diagram, a very, very important astronomical tool. We start this module near the end of chapter 6 in sections 6. 4 and 6. 6 before moving on to chapter 7.
