UNIVERSE
THE SUN
Question
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yellow star
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white star
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blue star
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red star
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sun emits light across the visible spectrum, so its color is white, with a CIE color-space index near (0.3, 0.3), when viewed from space or when the Sun is high in the sky.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although it’s a star – and our local star at that – our sun doesn’t have a generally accepted and unique proper name in English. We English speakers always just call it the sun. You sometimes hear English-speakers use the name Sol for our sun.
Detailed explanation-4: -have temperatures of about 1750 degrees and emit more red light while the hottest stars have temperatures over 40 000 degrees. and look bluer our sun has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees. so it emits almost equal amounts of blue.
Detailed explanation-5: -A powerful telescope in Chile has imaged the largest yellow star ever discovered. The star, called HR 5171 A, shines 12, 000 light-years from Earth in the center of a new image released today (March 12).