Today’s Episode
Aug 11th: Why Are Stars Different Colors?
Today Awesome Astronomy will taking a look at the colour of stars and why stars appear the colours they do. Also how the mass of a star is related to its temperature, what happens to expanding dying stars and why we don’t see any green or purple stars.
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