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The members of a human family are related, but that does not mean your Uncle Ed looks or behaves anything like your mother. So it is with stars. All stars are related through a variety of physical processes, yet all are different, some amazingly so, rather like Mom being a ballerina and Ed a sumo wrestler (as unlikely as that may be). Even as identical twins have subtle differences, no two similar-appearing stars are really quite alike either.
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© 2001 James B. Kaler
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Kaler, J.B. (2001). The Family. In: The Little Book of Stars. Little Book Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21621-8_3
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