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Star and the H-R Diagram
This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a beautifully animated video giving a short overview of the life cycle of stars, but crucially how, from Earth, we can observe the different phases of star evolution by plotting all the available stars on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
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