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Old 20th Mar 2005, 18:00
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orionsbelt
 
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Star tempratures

To add to V1 R comments
please take a look at

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/stars.php

Stars and colours vary in temp from
80.000deg k over 8 main bands down to 2000-3000 deg k

our sun is 5800deg k and is yellow.
The web site give other main details. One point that is hard to accept is that some stars are massive and can be as big as our solar system!!!!!!!

Cheers Orion
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