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The subtle beauty of the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram

As a stellar astrophysicist myself, I can’t help but falling in love with this diagram, which is the key in the understanding of stellar evolution and stellar population analysis. This tool was developed independently by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell in the early 1900s. What it...

The subtle beauty of the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram

As a stellar astrophysicist myself, I can’t help but falling in love with this diagram, which is the key in the understanding of stellar evolution and stellar population analysis. This tool was developed independently by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell in the early 1900s. What it...