How hot is a star?

Red stars are cooler than the sun, with surface temperatures of 3,500 K for a bright red star and 2,500 K for a dark red star. The hottest stars are blue, with their surface temperatures falling anywhere between 10,000 K and 50,000 K.
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How hot is a regular star?

Thus, hot stars are blue. One way of classifying stars is by their temperature; stellar temperatures run from about 2500 Kelvin to about 50,000 Kelvin.
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Is there a star hotter than the Sun?

Answer 2: NO. The hottest stars have surface temperatures of 50,000 Kelvin degrees. The Sun surface is only 5800 Kelvin degrees, which means that there are hotter starts than the Sun.
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How hot is a star in the sky?

Betelgeuse, a bright star in the constellation of Orion, is much cooler, about 6,900 degrees F, and so even to the naked eye has an easily identified red hue. The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius (also known as the "Dog Star"), has a surface temperature of about 18,000 degrees F, which gives it its bluish tinge.
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How hot is the hottest star ever?

The hottest one measures ~210,000 K; the hottest known star. The Wolf-Rayet star WR 102 is the hottest star known, at 210,000 K.
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How Hot Is Our Star?



Is the Milky Way hotter than the Sun?

The new Hubble data show that the star is actually on the outskirts of the Milky Way, moving away at a speed of 220 kilometers per second - or 490,000mph. By comparison, our sun is cool at just under 6,000°C (10,832°F), and has been relatively stable at that temperature for 4.6 billion years.
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What is the hottest thing in the universe?

The hottest thing in the Universe: Supernova

The temperatures at the core during the explosion soar up to 100 billion degrees Celsius, 6000 times the temperature of the Sun's core.
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What is the hottest Sun in the universe?

Eta Carinae could be as large as 180 times the radius of the Sun, and its surface temperature is 36,000-40,000 Kelvin. Just for comparison, 40,000 Kelvin is about 72,000 degrees F. So it's the blue hypergiants, like Eta Carinae, which are probably the hottest stars in the Universe.
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How hot is the core of the Sun?

The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) – hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion.
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Is the Sun the hottest thing in the universe?

The dead star at the center of the Red Spider Nebula has a surface temperature of 250,000 degrees F, which is 25 times the temperature of the Sun's surface. This white dwarf may, indeed, be the hottest object in the universe.
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Is lava hotter than fire?

While lava can be as hot as 2200 F, some flames can be much hotter, such as 3600 F or more, while a candle flame can be as low as 1800 F. Lava is hotter than a typical wood or coal-buring fire, but some flames, such as that of an acetylene torch, is hotter than lava.
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Is anything hotter than lightning?

A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun. One thing hotter is when gold atoms are smashed together by the Large Hadron Collider, but only for a split second. Another thing hotter is a supernova.
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What is the coldest thing in the universe?

  • At a chilly –459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (–273.15 degrees Celsius), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the universe (Image credit: ESA/NASA)
  • The nebula gets its name thanks to its shape. ...
  • The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) confirmed the temperature of the coldest place in the universe. (
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How hot is lava?

The eruption temperature of Kīlauea lava is about 1,170 degrees Celsius (2,140 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature of the lava in the tubes is about 1,250 degrees Celsius (2,200 degrees Fahrenheit). The tube system of episode 53 (Pu'u O'o eruption) carried lava for 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the vent to the sea.
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How hot is a blue star?

The hottest stars are blue, with their surface temperatures falling anywhere between 10,000 K and 50,000 K.
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How hot is a supernova?

A supernova can light the sky up for weeks. The temperature in a supernova can reach 1,000,000,000 degrees Celsius. This high temperature can lead to the production of new elements which may appear in the new nebula that results after the supernova explosion.
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How hot is the Moon?

Taking the Moon's Temperature

Daytime temperatures near the lunar equator reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120° C, 400 K), while nighttime temperatures get to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit (-130° C, 140 K). The Moon's poles are even colder.
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How cold is the Moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Why is the Earth's core still hot?

The primary contributors to heat in the core are the decay of radioactive elements, leftover heat from planetary formation, and heat released as the liquid outer core solidifies near its boundary with the inner core.
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How hot is lava compared to the Sun?

Lava is indeed very hot, reaching temperatures of 2,200° F or more. But even lava can't hold a candle to the sun! At its surface (called the "photosphere"), the sun's temperature is a whopping 10,000° F! That's about five times hotter than the hottest lava on Earth.
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What is hotter than a supernova?

It's right here on Earth at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When they smash gold particles together, for a split second, the temperature reaches 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than a supernova explosion.
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Where is absolute zero found?

Absolute zero, technically known as zero kelvins, equals −273.15 degrees Celsius, or -459.67 Fahrenheit, and marks the spot on the thermometer where a system reaches its lowest possible energy, or thermal motion.
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What is the oldest thing in the universe?

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of one the oldest and most distant objects ever known in the universe — a star-forming galaxy 12.8 billion light-years away that started forming within a billion years of the Big Bang that kickstarted everything.
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What is the coldest natural thing on Earth?

Answer and Explanation: The most natural coldest thing on the earth is the ice of Antarctica.
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