Color of stars
Stellar Brightness
Hr diagram
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Why do stars have different colors?

Temperature increase 

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What is stellar brightness?

How bright the star appears 

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What is a HR diagram

Shows the relationship between a star's temperature and its luminosity 

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What are the most common star color

red dwarfs

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What is apparent magnitude of brightness?

The brightness of an object as it appears on earth

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How are stars classified on the HR diagram? 

From bottom to top in order of decreasing magnitude 

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What colors can stars be?

Red, orange, yellow, white and blue

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What is absolute magnitude brightness mean? 

 The apparent magnitude an object would have if it were located at a distance

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How is the Hr diagram used to identify stars?

To chart the life cycle of stars

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What is the highest class of stars?

O, B, A, F, G, K, M

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How do astronomers measure the brightness of a star?

Using the magnitude scale 

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What is the rarest star classification? 

O classification 

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What is a light curve?

A graph that shows the brightness of an object over a period of time