Stellar spectral types originally followed alphabetical order. But as astronomers observed more stars and obtained more detailed spectra, they consolidated some categories and reordered the remaining ...
We present the first results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen ASAS-SN utilizes the ...
What is the origin of the letters used in star classification? Why didn't astronomers use ABCD? J. HaldimanChicago, Illinois ...
Stellar spectral types were initially arranged alphabetically; however, subsequent detailed observations led to the consolidation and reordering of categories, establishing the current OBAFGKM ...