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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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