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a star's apparent magnitude is a measure of how bright it apppears to us if it is at its actual distane true false

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The apparent brightness of a star is how much energy is coming from the star per square meter per second, as measured on Earth. The further away the star is, the smaller the probability that a given photon emitted by the star will eventually hit Earth. Or said a quantitative form: all else being the same, the apparent brightness of a star is proportional the the inverse square of its distance.

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