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Good Point

In most binary pairs, one star is more massive than the other, so even though they are of identical age and chemical composition, the heavier one has evolved much faster and further than the lighter of the pair. It might make a very interesting project for an armchar astrophysicist to compare close binary members with stars of similar mass who are distant binary members. Would an HR diagram of these stars look different?

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