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We all have been fortunate enough at times to see and to contemplate the starry sky on a clear night. We have seen bright stars and faint stars. And of course we have been told that stars can be bright either because they are close to us or because their luminosity is really large.
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Stix, M. (1989). Introduction: The Sun’s Distance, Mass, Radius, Luminosity .... In: The Sun. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97129-7_1
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