Star Classification

Author's Game Description

The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram gives a visual classification of stars. Find the categories.

Map by Richard Powell at atlasoftheuniverse.com/

Category: Science

Created by tickman June 16, 2008

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tickman June 17, 2008

Thanks, Muffy.

Glad you enjoyed the game. I thought the picture was too nice to pass up, even though more informative (but less artistic) versions exist.

muffy June 16, 2008

The night sky has always been an interest of mine. It was nice to see the classification that you made of the stars.

tickman June 15, 2008

Find the diagram here:

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/hr.html

See the main page here:

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/

Also, find the diagram at Wikimedia:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:HRDiagram.png

The image has a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

details:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

The Wikipedia page on the subject uses a similar (but not as attractive) diagram. See that page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification

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Highscores - Star Classification				Place 1 - 9
	Player Name	Score	Time	Date of Play
1	Vovchik	100%	0:14.0 min.	2008-06-22
2	timpat	100%	0:15.3 min.	2008-06-17
3	muffy	100%	0:15.6 min.	2008-06-18
4	harrison	100%	0:24.7 min.	2008-07-30
5	tickman	92%	0:21.8 min.	2008-06-16
6	supernintendofanclub	92%	0:34.6 min.	2008-06-18
7	foofit	80%	1:26.6 min.	2008-06-17
8	Speejay	60%	1:08.1 min.	2008-06-20
9	kajman888	55%	0:47.2 min.	2008-06-17
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