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The most massive main sequence stars are the brightest, (O main sequence star on Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram). Main sequence stars obey a mass-luminosity relation.

On the H-R diagram the vertical axis is the brightness. So the stars along the top are the brightest (intrinsically).

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