Fundamental Properties of Stars

• Parallax gives distance to closest stars.

  • Light years.

• Colours give temperature.

  • blue=hot, yellow=tepid (6000K), red=cool.

• Luminosity from 0.001 -100,000 x Sun.

• Masses from binary star orbits (K3L).

  • 0.01 to 100 x Sun

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