Early-type stars

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Term: Early-type stars
Definition:

Hot, luminous stars of spectral type O, B, A, and F0 to F5. They were originally thought, wrongly, to be at an earlier stage of evolution than late-type stars.

Created 2023.04.16
Last Modified 2023.04.16
Contributed by Ryan McGranaghan
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