kellylepo, 11 months ago to random How is your toaster like a cool star? They both look red and glow because they are hot, dense objects, but they emit most of their light at infrared wavelengths. 1/ Image credits Toaster: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toaster_Filaments.JPG DSS image of Betelgeuse: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0927e/ #astronomy #Astro101 #stars A bright reddish-orange star. The star shows a typical diffraction pattern for a bright star seen through a telescope - a circle in the center and four thin spikes forming a cross shape. In the background are thousands of smaller, fainter stars, seen as points of light in shades of blue and white on a black background.
How is your toaster like a cool star?
They both look red and glow because they are hot, dense objects, but they emit most of their light at infrared wavelengths.
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Image credits Toaster: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toaster_Filaments.JPG DSS image of Betelgeuse: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0927e/ #astronomy #Astro101 #stars
A bright reddish-orange star. The star shows a typical diffraction pattern for a bright star seen through a telescope - a circle in the center and four thin spikes forming a cross shape. In the background are thousands of smaller, fainter stars, seen as points of light in shades of blue and white on a black background.