DWARFSTAR

Dwarf star

The term dwarf star refers to a variety of distinct classes of stars. The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars—classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme—could be divided into two distinct groups. They are either much brighter than the Sun, or much fainter. To distinguish these groups, he called them "giant" and "dwarf" stars. The scope of the term "dwarf" was later expanded to include the following:

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dwarf star

Noun

  1. A star that is located in the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram; fuses hydrogen into helium in its core.


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