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Annie Jump Cannon A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram plotting stars by absolute magnitude and spectral type, showing regions for main sequence stars, white dwarfs, giants, and supergiants, with color gradients from blue (hot and bright) to red (cool and dim). The Sun is marked along the main sequence.
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, c. 1900.
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Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Spectral type (a measure of a star's temperature), following...
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