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📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 3#️⃣ Question 13 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

An astronomer measures stellar luminosity by approximating stars as perfect black bodies. If this astronomer observes a star with half the radius of the Sun but twice the temperature, how many times larger is the star's luminosity than the Sun's luminosity?

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