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horizontal branch

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horizontal branch [‚här·ə′zänt·əl ′branch]
(astronomy)
A region in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of a typical globular cluster that extends in the blue direction from the giant branch at an absolute bolometric magnitude of 0.3 and consists of stars that are burning helium in their cores and hydrogen in their surrounding envelopes.


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