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

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

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

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...

as reference points for deep-space imaging. Astrographs used for stellar classification sometimes consist of two identical telescopes on the same mount...

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

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

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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,...

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...

Class M (or M-class) planet, a classification used in the Star Trek media franchise Class M star, a stellar classification Class M, a driver's license,...

over time. When its resulting stellar classification enters a range known as the instability strip—typically at stellar class A—the outer envelope can...

development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was...

She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International...

star or bluestar may refer to: O-type star (a.k.a. blue star), a stellar classification Linckia laevigata, a sea star from the Indian and West Pacific Oceans...

Retrieved 2009-09-21. Gray, C. Richard O.; Corbally, J. (2009). Stellar Spectral Classification. Princeton University Press. pp. 115–122. ISBN 978-0691125114...

O-type star is a hot, blue-white star of spectral type O in the Yerkes classification system employed by astronomers. They have temperatures in excess of...

Germany The Morgan-Keenan-Kellman system, a stellar classification system also known as Yerkes spectral classification Search for "mkk" , "m-kk", "mk-k", or...

forth. Between 1910 and 1915, new discoveries increased interest in stellar classification, and work on the Henry Draper Catalogue itself started in 1911....

A whitish-blue class of stars in the Morgan–Keenan system; see Stellar classification Part of the provisional designation of a comet (e.g., C/1760 A1)...

studies have given various different values. The primary star has a stellar classification of B2III-IV. The luminosity class matches the spectrum of a star...

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harbor magnetic dynamos. As a consequence, because they do not have strong stellar winds, they lack a means to generate X-ray emissions. The revised Yerkes...

than about 13 Jupiter masses. Chandrasekhar limit Dwarf planet Stellar classification Sub-brown dwarf Subdwarf star Ultra-cool dwarf Brown, Laurie M.;...

solar twins are stars that are particularly similar to the Sun. The stellar classification is a hierarchy with solar twin being most like the Sun followed...

Yellow star may refer to: A yellow star in stellar classification A yellow badge, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to wear on their clothes Any plant...

them as close as 8.9 AU and as far as 21.0 AU. The primary has a stellar classification of F5IV–V, indicating that it is a late-stage F-type main-sequence...

Y-chromosomal Adam and Haplogroup A (Y-DNA) A0, a subdivision in stellar classification A0, sometimes written as 0xA0, is the hexadecimal representation...

measurements which reveal objects' astrophysical properties, such as stellar classification and placement of a celestial body on its Wien curve. Most astronomical...