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Blue Stars are the hottest there is. Stars are classified according to a mnemonic category - O,B,A,F,G,K,M.

O being the the hottest (blue stars) and M being the coolest (Red Dwarfs).

The star around planet Earth belongs to Category G - a bright and fairly young Yellow star, although it tends to fall more towards the Orange spectrum. It is thus no longer a true Category G star and is rechristened according to the Morgan-Keenan System as Category G2V based on the luminosity.

Red stars emit about 5% of the radiation of Earth's sun (thus bringing the probability of harboring habitable planets in their solar systems down to sub zero levels). However frequent "flare ups" do occur due to the high level of magnetic activity.

Perhaps it would be easier for you to understand if I just say that Earth's Sun has a luminosity level of 0.6 to 1.5 (on the hottest of days), whereas Blue stars have levels well beyond 30,000 (that would make it at least a million times brighter than Earth's Sun). Naturally, its much larger than Earth's sun (nearly 16 times as big). These are the Hypergiants and the rarest among all the stars as they tend to burn up the hydrogen at their cores very quickly and go hypernova (thats umm what the super-supernova is called).

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