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Originally Posted by OzStarGazer
The funny thing though is that blue is hotter than orange or red (red being colder than orange) in the stars, so blue stars are hotter than orange or red stars. Funny because our mind usually thinks of red as hotter than blue...  |
Yeah cos we think of red hot and icy cold, it's just our association
The hotter stars emit more energetic (shorter wavelength) blueish light, the cooler ones emitting cooler, less energetic longer wavelengths that we see as red.