What do the colors of stars indicate?

The colors of the stars indicate their surface temperatures. There are five star colors: blue, white, yellow, orange, and red. The hottest stars are blue, with temperatures around 25,000 K. Red is the color of the coldest stars, which have surface temperatures of approximately 3,000 K.

What are the 5 star colors?

There are five star colors: blue, white, yellow, orange, and red. The hottest stars are blue, with temperatures around 25,000 K. Red is the color of the coldest stars, which have surface temperatures of approximately 3,000 K. While the five star colors are blue, white, yellow, orange, and red, there are in-between colors.

Can we see colored stars?

Because of the atmosphere we live in and how we see colors, we can see colored stars, but that may not be their true color, as I explained above for our Sun. One of the few objects in the sky we can clearly see in its true color is Mars: the red planet looks, indeed, red.