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The horizontal branch (HB) is a stage of stellar evolution which immediately follows the red giant branch . HB stars are powered by helium fusion (aka the triple-alpha reaction) in their cores, and hydrogen fusion in a shell surrounding the core. The horizontal branch is so named because HB stars lie along a roughly horizontal line in a color-magnitude diagram . Astronomy
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