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The fusing red giant shell drifts away form the core forming planetary nebula. Leaving only very hot core (white dwarf) (1) The core is hotter than the shell , the star moves left on the diagram. (1) Luminosity decreases because the only emitted photons are formed in earlier stages of evolution and therefore have less energy (1)
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