Understanding Stars: Distance, Luminosity, Mass, and Spectral Classification
7 min readMay 3, 2021
There Is More To A Star Than You Might Think!
Stars come in just about every color, temperature, size and brightness. Let’s start with brightness. Some stars look brighter than others, but they may not have the brightness we think they do. This is because we don’t know just by looking up in the sky which stars are closer to us or not…