The first session of “A Galaxy of Stars: Modern Data in Stellar Astrophysics” ended and our teacher handed out the first homework assignment, encouraging us to work together. Taking his advice to heart, an hour later fifteen students crammed into a hot dorm room and got to work. We shot questions back and forth: “Who understands how to use parallax measurements?” “Did anyone else figure out the code for a stellar color-magnitude diagram?” Everyone brought talents and unique perspectives to the challenge the homework presented, and before we knew it, the work was complete. So we got to…
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