What is brighter than one star of the first magnitude or two stars of the second magnitude?
| August 1, 2020 | Education
The magnitude scale is such that the brightness of a star with magnitude m is 2.512 times that of a star with magnitude (m + 1). Therefore, one star of the first magnitude is brighter than two stars of the second magnitude.
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