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The HR Diagram for Luminous Stars in Nearby Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Roberta M. Humphreys*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

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HR diagrams for the stellar populations in other galaxies play a fundamental role in our understanding of the progress of stellar evolution and the effects of possible variations in chemical composition. It is important to compare what little information we have about stars in other galaxies with the same types of stars in our own Milky Way. Basically we are asking - are they the same, and how universal are the processes we observe in our Galaxy?

Type
Part VI: Galaxies and Miscellaneous Subjects
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978