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English: Graphs of brightness vs. wavelength of three objects of different temperature. A blackbody curve is a type of continuous spectrum that is directly related to the temperature of an object. A star with a temperature of 8,000 kelvins (roughly 8,000 degrees Celsius or 14,000 degrees Fahrenheit) is brighter and looks bluer than a star that is 3,000 K (2,700°C or 5,000°F ), which is dimmer and redder. A blackbody spectrum can be used to calculate the temperature of an object. (Although stars are not perfect blackbodies, the blackbody curve describes the shape of a star’s overall spectrum quite well.)
Date 2 July 2021, 19:50:00 (upload date)
Source Continuous Spectra (Blackbody Curves) of Stars
Author ILLUSTRATION: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI), Andi James (STScI)
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag.

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