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| the band of colors produced when white light passes through a prism |
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| the brightness of a star as seen from earth |
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| the brightness that a star would have at a distance of 32.6 light-years from earth |
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| the distance that light travels in one year; about 9.46 kilometers |
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| an apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations |
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| the location on the H-R diagram where most stars lie; it had a diagonal pattern from the lower right (low temperature and luminosity) to the upper left (high temperature and luminosity) |
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| Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, a graph that shows the relationship between |
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