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Star in a Box

  • Writer: Caroline Martin
    Caroline Martin
  • Aug 30, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Dec 1, 2021

Stars live for billions of years. Throughout their long lifetimes they go through many changes in temperature, size, brightness, and mass. Annie Jump Cannon devised a system of sorting stars based on the strength of their Balmer Lines, which astronomers later realized is related to the star's temperature. Use this Star in a Box simulator from Las Cumbres Observatory to follow all the phases of a star's life.



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