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Is a red giant star hotter than a white dwarf star?

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No. Color, for stars, is (almost) entirely dependent on "surface" temperature, and white stars are significantly hotter then red ones. (The order from coolest to hottest goes brown, red, orange, yellow, yellow-white, white, blue-white, blue).

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