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e-Book - Try it: Stellar Spectra - Answer

These strips are now in order to represent a spectrum from each of the seven major classes of stars, O, B, A, F, G, K, M. By strip number, the correct order is 5, 2, 1, 6, 3, 7, 4.

Stellar Spectra

For more information about stellar spectra, read the article at right called "Discoveries by Hearing Impaired Women" and also visit Wikipedia's Stellar Spectroscopy article and its Stellar Classification article.

(Images courtesy of NOAO/AURA/NSF, with special thanks to Brad Armosky and Dr Mary Kay Hemenway from McDonald Observatory. A teacher's PDF version of a similar exercise can be downloaded here .)

UPDATED: 25th July 2006
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