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Because they are hotter.

Imagine heating a rod of iron. It starts off black, then goes to red, orange, then yellow. Heat it some more and it turns white, and then blue - it would probably be melting by that point, but you get the picture.

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Which stars in globular clusters are believed to be examples of mergers?

Blue straggler stars in globular clusters are believed to be examples of mergers. These stars are thought to form from the merging of two smaller stars or from the collision and merger of two stars in a binary system, leading to them appearing brighter and bluer than other stars in the cluster.


Are red stars hot or cool?

Red stars are cooler than stars of other colors but are still quite hot, which is why the glow red.


What is the classification for large cool stars?

Large cool stars are classified as either K or M type stars on the spectral classification scale, with M stars being cooler and redder than K stars. These stars are part of the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and have surface temperatures lower than 5,000 K.


What relationship do you see between a star's color and its temperature?

The visible spectrum, as it goes from red to blue, refects higher energies and shorter wavelengths, that are produced by progressively higher temperatures. So, bluish stars are hotter than reddish stars.


What is the relationship between color and temperature of the star?

It depends on the stars wave-lengths for most of it. Stars that are cool (for stars at least- measured in kelvin) normally radiate there energy in the electromagnetic spectrum as red. Even though all stars in the sky appear to be white. Hot stars radiate much larger wave lengths, causing an almost blue color to be emitted. The only way for us to know how hot a star is... is finding where it's wavelengths are at there "peek". Wave lengths are NOT visible to the human eye.

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Why does the moon look brighter than the stars?

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What is the classification for large cool stars?

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Do cool stars evolve much more quickly than hot stars?

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Is BLUER a word?

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Stars look so tiny because they are really really far away.


What would blue be in superlative?

Positive ............ blue - The sky is blue Comparative ..... bluer - Today the sky is bluer than it was yesterday Superlative ....... bluest - That is the bluest sky I have ever seen