Brightness Plot (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Brightness Plot

Caption

A plot comparing the brightness (on the y-axis) to the color (on the x-axis) of 250-million year-old stars in the Wild Duck Cluster. The blue dots indicate individual stars. The bluest stars are on the left side, and the reddest stars are on the right side. The red line indicates the path across this plot that stars take over the course of their lifetime.

Credit

Beomdu Lim

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