wat color is the stars?

Answer 1

A stars color is dependent on its temperature. Commonly occuring stars are white, blue, yellow, orange, red. Its possible that there are other colored stars also.

Answer 2

The color of a star is determined by its color. The photons emitted at the surface follow what is called a "blackbody radiation" distribution, with a peak at a specific frequency that depends on the temperature.

That is because there is no actual burning going on at the surface. Simply heat.

Ouu sun has an "effective temperature" of 5780 K (almost 10,000 F), giving it a color of yellow (almost white).

We have evolved under this sun and a sky that is very good at diffracting blue light. Adding the blue of the sky to the blue-depleted light of the Sun, our daylight source is equivalent to approximately 6000 K, which is what we call "white".

"Daylight" photographic film is often balanced for a color-temperature of 6000 to 6500 K. "Tungsten-light) film is balanced for approximately 3000 K.

Some stars have a higher proportion of "metals" or are surrounded by gases or dust, giving them a different color.

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However, we just had a question in a couse (M.Sc. level) where we had to explain why there are no green stars (when the peak is in the green for a black body emission, the perceived color is white or slightly yellowish, because of the amounts of red and blue that are present).

Some stars are labeled as "green" in some lists. This applies to double stars where one is blue and the other yellow or orange. Astronomers used to report these as green but spectral analysis show tham as being really blue, not green.

Answer 3

From blue through white, yellow, and orange, to red. Contrary to another answer, there are no green stars. The colour is entirely depended on temperature, not the gas they're made of, since all stars are primarily hydrogen and helium. Blue stars are the hottest, red stars are the coolest.

Answer 4

Astronomy is full of colour references; white dwarfs, black holes and red giants for example. If you look up into the night sky you may be able to see a few thousand stars from a dark site. As the stars are all so distant they appear as points in the sky. Most appear white but a few stars such as Antares and Betelgeuse have an orange or reddish hue to them. Others such as Rigel suggest a bluer colour. The colours of stars, however, are not obvious in most stars for several reasons discussed below. Colour is nonetheless an important and useful property of stars. In this page we will look at how it is defined, measured and used in astronomy.

Answer 5

The colour of a star also depends on its age, older stars are red and younger stars are blue.

Answer 6

The apparent lack of green stars is mentioned in the January Sky & Telescope. Our own Sun is actually slightly green, but since we evolved under its light, our colour vision sees it as colourless, i.e. white.

Thus, we see all green stars as white.

Answer 7

If you're asking about what color of stars we can see with the naked eye, we can see stars ranging from white-blue to orangeish to reddish. In actuality, stars come in all colors, including green.

Answer 8

Think of stars as big neon signs,.

Depending on the gas they burn that will be the color.

Usually they start blue, then white, yellow, orange, and red.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

White, blue, orange, yellow, red