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What is absolute value of a star?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

"Absolute value" is used for numbers, not for stars.

For stars, there is something called "absolute brightness" or "absolute magnitude"; that refers to how bright the star really is (as opposed to what it looks like for us). It is defined as how bright the star would look at a standard distance.

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