Hertzsprung

/ hɛrdsbrɔŋ /

noun

1. Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Hertzsprung

1. Danish astronomer who specialized in photographing the stars and introduced the concept of absolute magnitude. Hertzsprung also demonstrated the relationship between the surface temperature of stars and their absolute magnitude, but his work was ignored until Henry Russell independently developed a similar correlation, which is now named after both of them.

Example Sentences

It’s tricky to catch a star amid this metamorphosis, which, in astronomers’ parlance, is known as “crossing the Hertzsprung gap.”

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A star may shine for tens of billions of years and cross the Hertzsprung gap in a few thousand.

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Next, they fed their hard-won historical data into state-of-the-art models simulating the evolution of stars crossing the Hertzsprung gap.

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At the predicted time, it slammed into the far side of the moon within the 350-mile-wide Hertzsprung Crater, out of sight of anyone on Earth.

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Gray predicted that the rocket likely hit the Moon in a far side crater called Hertzsprung.

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