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Yes the color of a star does afect the temp. of a star Blue stars such as Sirus B are the hottest, stars such as Polaris (AKA the North Star) are cooler than the blue ones. Also, stars such as that are yellow-white such as the sun are medium temp.

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It tells them what the temperature is. There's an equation that gives the spectral curve for an object (a "black body") that is glowing due to its own temperature rather than reflecting light emitted by some other object, and this curve is different at every temperature. Very roughly speaking, "cool" (for stars) stars appear red, and as they get hotter they turn orange, yellow, yellowish-white, white, bluish-white, and finally blue. The actual spectrum (or at least the wavelength of the spectral maximum) is needed to determine the temperature precisely, but you can make some guesses just by what color the star seems to be to your eye.

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Stars can be small, medium, or large. Their color and temperature depends on their size. Not a long answer but a science teacher should know.

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The stars temperature will be greater than 30,000 K

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Yes, that is correct. The color basically depends on the temperature of the star's visible part.

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What is the color of stars with the lowest surface temperature?

the color of stars with the lowest surface temperature is red


How do stars get their colors?

The Color of stars depends upon their surface temperature.


What is the color of the star with the lowest surface temperature?

the color of stars with the lowest surface temperature is red


What is the color of the stars that have the lowest surface temperature is?

Red stars have the lowest surface temperatures.


What information does a stars color give you?

its surface temperature


How do you detect a temperature of a star?

The surface temperature can be estimated quite precisely from the color of the light. The temperature of the core can't be measured as directly, and must be estimated based on our knowledge of how stars work.


What is the color of stars that have a surface temperature of 3000 degrees celsius?

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How do astronomers determine the surface temperatures of the stars?

By their color, primarily. There is a very strong correlation between the stars color and it's temperature.


Stars of what color have the coolest surface temperature?

Red from all data I have looked at.


What is the color of the stars with the greatest surface temperature?

Its brighter so has blue colour


What controls the color of a star?

The color of a star depends on its surface temperature. But hot stars are blue, and medium-hot stars are white, and cool stars are red.


What color star has the highest surface temperature?

Red stars have the coolest surface temperature. Blue color stars have the highest surface temperature. The Sun belongs to the main sequence stars.