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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/s26/1/3/b/solution

Cool faint stars lie toward the lower right. Redder color and larger magnitude identify that corner, subject to common extinction and the atmospheric color-temperature relation. A color-magnitude diagram is not a geometrical map of where the stars are located within the cluster.

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