Stars and the H-R Diagram

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Essential Information

Location	Royal Observatory
Key Stage	Key Stage 4, Post-16
School Subject	Astronomy, Science
Resource Type	Video

Stars are like humans – they have similarities and differences with each other but all have a finite lifetime.

Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how stars can be categorised and their evolution studied by tracking their movement across a very important graph in stellar evolution - the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.