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Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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| Hertzsprung-Russell diagram [ húrts sprung rúss'l d ə gram ] (plural Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams) |
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star graph of brightness against colour: a graph that plots the brightness of stars against their spectral type or colour
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| [After Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873-1967), Danish astronomer, and Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957), US astronomer, who independently devised it] |
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