Hertzsprung

/ hɛrdsbrɔŋ /

noun

1. HertzsprungEjnar18731967MDanishSCIENCE: astronomer Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Hertzsprung

/ hĕrts′sprng /

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.”

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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.

From New York Times

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

From The Verge