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... mass and luminosity , discovered by Eddington . Stars of large mass are always bright , and stars of small mass faint . A star of the sun's mass has nearly the sun's brightness ; one of 4 times the sun's mass gives about 80 times as ...
... mass and luminosity , discovered by Eddington . Stars of large mass are always bright , and stars of small mass faint . A star of the sun's mass has nearly the sun's brightness ; one of 4 times the sun's mass gives about 80 times as ...
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... masses are of larger diameter - being less compressed by their own gravitation - so that the volume is inversely proportional to the mass . For large masses , the central density is so high that equa- tion ( 6 ) becomes applicable . The ...
... masses are of larger diameter - being less compressed by their own gravitation - so that the volume is inversely proportional to the mass . For large masses , the central density is so high that equa- tion ( 6 ) becomes applicable . The ...
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... mass , are smaller than those in which the center is just begin- ning to be degenerate . The latter diminish slowly , with increasing mass , from the size of Saturn to a little smaller than Uranus . The final completely de generate ...
... mass , are smaller than those in which the center is just begin- ning to be degenerate . The latter diminish slowly , with increasing mass , from the size of Saturn to a little smaller than Uranus . The final completely de generate ...
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