Multiple Choice
Imagine that powerful telescopes in the future give us a truly representative sampling of all the stars in the Sun's cosmic neighborhood. Where on the H-R diagram would most of the stars in our immediate vicinity lie?
A) in the upper right, among the supergiants
B) in the upper left, among the bright main sequence stars
C) in the middle of the main sequence, roughly where the Sun is
D) in the lower left, among the white dwarfs
E) in the lower right, among the least luminous main sequence stars
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