Hertzsprung Notes the Relationship Between Color and Luminosity of Stars
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Scandinavia, Denmark
- Date: 1905
Article abstract: Hertzsprung discovered that the color of a star is related to its luminosity, which led to his presentation of the first Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Summary of Event
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the science of astronomy was changing. Astronomy up until that time had been devoted chiefly to the study of the motions of heavenly bodies and the mechanical laws and forces that governed those motions. With the advent of spectroscopy and photography in the late nineteenth century, astronomers began to study the nature...
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