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The simplest observation that astronomers make is that stars shine. The sources of this energy and the changes in stellar structure that occur with time are the basis of stellar evolution. As Sears (1981) states: “The theory of stellar evolution is sufficiently developed that each of the stars we can see can be identified with a particular evolutionary stage”.
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Lima-de-Faria, A. (2014). It May Sound Outrageous but the Human Condition Appears to Be Anchored in the Organization of Galaxies. In: Molecular Origins of Brain and Body Geometry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06056-9_15
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