Re: [FT] Jump limits
From: "Steve Pugh" <steve@p...>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:43:09 -0000
Subject: Re: [FT] Jump limits
> You can't tell the color of a star from luminosity. The color of a
> star is temperature-dependent, not luminosity-dependent. I refer you
> to a Hertzprung-Russell diagram for an illustration of this:
>
> http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/hrdiagram.htm
>
> (though admittedly I've seen very few *green* stars in my time ;-)
Green stars appear white to the naked eye.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part7/
Steve
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