Ranking Task: Luminosity, Distance and the Apparent Brightness of Stars

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The following figure shows how four identical stars appear in the night sky as seen from earth. The shading is used to indicate how bright (white) or dim (dark gray) the star would appear in the sky from Earth.

Brightest is closest, dimmest (or darkest) is most distant

Listed following are several fictitious stars with their luminosities given in terms of the Sun's luminosity and their distances from Earth given in light-years. Rank the stars based on how bright each would appear in the sky as seen from earth, from brightest to dimmest. If two or more stars have the same brightness, show this equality by dragging one star on top of the others

Brightest: Nismo, then (overlapping because they're the same) Shelby and Ferdinand, then Enzo, then Lotus (dimmest)

Listed following is the same set of fictitious stars as given in Part A. Rank the stars based on how bright each would appear in the sky as seen from Jupiter, from brightest to dimmest.

Same as part A. Brightest: Nismo, then (overlapping because they're the same) Shelby and Ferdinand, then Enzo, then Lotus (dimmest)


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