Discover why some stars shine blue, white, orange or red and what those colors tell us about the cosmos.

When we think of color in the night sky, we often think of beautiful images of galaxies and nebulae. Unfortunately, most of the time, their faint, diffuse light shows no color to our human eyes. Stars ...

This is an excellent question! It seems weird, right? The color of stars, or anything that gets really hot, is connected to its temperature. This is because hot objects emit light, which is called ...