A question about Green stars

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A question about Green stars

Post #1by kikinho » 08.10.2004, 22:53

Green stars are colder, hotter, smaller or bigger than Sun? And violet stars?

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Post #2by granthutchison » 09.10.2004, 00:46

Green and violet stars don't exist in the real world. Sometimes a yellow star in a binary pair with a red star looks to be tinged green, but that's a contrast effect, not a true colour.

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Post #3by Fafers » 09.10.2004, 13:49

Sometimes, in old books , I saw the "F" stars represented with green colour. So, in my childhood I thought that green stars did exist. It was much later that I discovered that was not true.

There is a very good discussion on this matter here:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/859923240.As.r.html


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