...that stars get brighter as they age, not dimmer? And when was this discovery made?
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...that stars get brighter as they age, not dimmer? And when was this discovery made?
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I'll guess it was either Hertzsprung or Russell.
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Check out the following references:
Gamow, Physical Review 53, p. 595, 1938
Gamow and Teller, Physical Review 53, p. 608, 1938
Bethe, Physical Review 55, p. 434, 1939
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Though erroneous, wouldn't the earlier views of energy from gravitational collapse claim greater luminosity with time?
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