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On this day in 1873 – October 8th – Danish chemist and astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is a classification system for explaining stellar types and stellar evolution. Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently made the discoveries that created the diagram.


Mona Evans
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