Star categories



I've noticed that stars are classified with letters of the alphabet.
This story
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18792
for example mentions "K stars" and "F stars". I'm wondering if this
system has a name. A Google search for "star categories" turned up
nothing useful.


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