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Born October 8, 1873 • Frederiksberg • Denmark
Died October 21, 1967 (aged 94) • Roskilde • Denmark
Subjects Of Study brightness • colour • star

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Hertzsprung, c. 1930
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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