In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...

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1885, Edward C. Pickering undertook an ambitious program of stellar spectral classification at Harvard College Observatory, in which a team of woman computers...

classifying stars into spectral types. The modern version of the stellar classification scheme was developed by Annie J. Cannon during the early 1900s....

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...

Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time. Depending on the mass of the star, its lifetime can range from a few...

reddening from the interstellar medium. In the current system of stellar classification, stars are grouped according to temperature, with the massive, very...

between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities versus their stellar classifications or effective temperatures. The diagram was created independently...

American astronomer who is known for her work on the Yerkes system of stellar classification, also called the MKK system. Edith Kellman was born on April 4,...

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