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stellar astronomy

(astronomy of the birth, structure, variety, evolution, and fate of stars)

The term stellar astronomy (for the science of stars) includes star formation, stellar structure, their variety and classification (spectral class, luminosity class), stellar evolution, and their fate, such as compact objects. Also included are their position (celestial coordinates and stellar distance determination) and motion (proper motion and peculiar velocity), and the necessary observation and analysis to determine this (positional astronomy).


(science,stars,astronomy)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy#Stellar_astronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stellar_astronomy
http://starplot.org/docs/ch1.html

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