“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.” Emily Dickinson Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was a British astronomer and mathematician in the early 1900s. He proposed that the maximum amount of light a star can produce occurs when the force of the radiation going out equals the gravitational force pulling in. At that point, the luminosity of a star has reached its limit.
The Eddington Limit
The Eddington Limit
The Eddington Limit
“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.” Emily Dickinson Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was a British astronomer and mathematician in the early 1900s. He proposed that the maximum amount of light a star can produce occurs when the force of the radiation going out equals the gravitational force pulling in. At that point, the luminosity of a star has reached its limit.