To find the size of a star, astronomers check the star's luminosity and temperature. Learn how to determine the size of a star, how to use the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, and understand why they are grouped accordingly. Finding the Size of Something To find the size of a shoe, you lo...
The main star boasts a luminosity nearly 2,500 times that of our sun, according to Jim Kaler, an astronomer at the University of Illinois. In modern times the North Star is somewhere around the 50th brightest star in the night sky — and, oddly, it appears to be getting brighter. Today...
(ii) the BSS frequency for the lowest luminosity dwarf galaxies is in excellent agreement with that observed in the Milky Way halo; and most ... Y Momany,EV Held,I Saviane,... - 《Astronomy & Astrophysics》 被引量: 93发表: 2007年 How old are the stars in the halo of NGC 5128 (...
For farther stars, other methods involving luminosity are used. Globular Clusters and Spiral Nebulae Around the time that Kapteyn published his model of the Milky Way, his colleague Harlow Shapely noticed that a type of star cluster called a globular cluster had a unique distribution in the sky...
Star Type:F-Class Supergiant Mass:4.5 times the mass of the Sun Luminosity:2,500 times brighter than the Sun Diameter:70 million km (50 x the Sun) Temperature:5,700 Celcius Distance From Earth:430 light-years Rotation Period:119 days ...
Luminosity-distance Relationship Astronomers (professional or amateur) can measure a star's brightness (the amount of light it puts out) by using a photometer or charge-coupled device on the end of a telescope. If they know the star's brightness and the distance to the star, they can calcu...
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The key components of the diagram are the temperature and luminosity (in other words brightness) of the star. You can see Rigel and Deneb right up at the top, which tells us that they are around a million times brighter than the Sun....
“These cosmic collisions happened some eight to 12 billion years ago, when the universe was in a much more active phase of its evolution. “Our findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how galaxies were created in the ear...
(Liquid water is a requirement for all life on Earth, although the universe could very well serve up exceptions to this). This "just right" spot around a star is also sometimes called the "Goldilocks Zone." The habitable zone is determined by the luminosity of a star — how much total ...