Understanding Stars: Distance, Luminosity, Mass, and Spectral Classification

Christine Breese Spirituality
7 min readMay 3, 2021

There Is More To A Star Than You Might Think!

Understanding Stars
Understanding Stars

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…

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