The Location of a Star in the H-R Diagram Indicates

question 98

True/False

The location of a star in the H-R diagram indicates its temperature and intrinsic brightness.

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Definitions:

Brightness

The perception of how light or vivid a color appears; can also refer to the luminance or intensity of light.

Color Vision

The ability of organisms to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision proposing that the eye perceives color through the relative rates of response by three types of cone cells, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

Opponent-Process Theory

Theory of color vision that proposes visual neurons (or groups of neurons) are stimulated by light of one color and inhibited by light of another color.