what is the real color of a star?

Answer 1

Stars emit colors of many different wavelengths, but the wavelength of light where a star's emission is concentrated is related to the star's temperature - the hotter the star, the more blue it is; the cooler the star, the more red it is.

Answer 2

The color can range from white to orange or even red. Remember a star is a sun so some stars will be the exact color of our sun.

Answer 3

The color that you see is based on the surface temperature of the star. Depending on the temperature there is a curve indicating the power at each frequency. The peak frequency would be the "color" that you see. If the peak frequency is in the ultraviolet range then we will see a bluish star. If the peak frequency is in the infra-red then we see a red star. I remember seeing a star that was greenish. So its peak light frequency must have been in the middle of the visible range.

Answer 4

It depends on their age. As they get older they change colors. They can be white, blue, red, orange, or yellow. Blue is the hottest and white stars are old, leftover, dying centers of old stars. And they do produce their own light, unlike another answer in this column. They are not a reflection of the light of our sun. You're thinking of the moon.

Answer 5

The colour of a star depends solely on its surface temperature.
From cool to hot, stars can be brown, red, orange, yellow
white, or blue.

Answer 6

All colors -- Infrared, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, ultraviolet, or just plain 'ol "blindingly white." There are no colors without light. Light is color -- ALL color.

Answer 7

Depends, some are like the sun (get a good filter if you're gonna eye-ball it.) some are red giant's, some are white dwarfs. So the one's I've heard of are: yellow, white and red.

Answer 8

The answer to your question depends on what type the star is. Here's a table of stellar spectral types along with the typical color of each --

'O' type star -- bluish
'B' type star -- blue-white
'A' type star -- white
'F' type star -- yellowish-white
'G' type star -- yellowish <== our sun
'K' type star -- orange
'M' type star -- reddish
'L' type star -- red-infrared <== can't be seen by naked eye
'T' type star -- infrared <== can't be seen by naked eye

Answer 9

stars are all different colors some are blue some are red, some yellow, orange. they are like big flaming balls of fire
hope this helped
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Answer 10

its all colors mainly fire red and orange but there can be blue stars also