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Brightness is related to distance.

However, from the same distance, an O class star is much much brighter than a M class star.

As a comparison, an O class star would appear about 100,000 times brighter than our Sun, whereas a M class star could appear 0.0017 dimmer than our Sun, if the Sun was replaced with each star.

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