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OCR: STAR COLORS A STAR'S COLOR is linked to its surface and orange stars, and the coolest temperature. If you know the value of all, red. Blue stars may have of one of these properties, it is temperatures as high as 50,000 ℃ possible to establish the other. Blue (90,000 ºF), while the surface stars are the hottest; white ones are temperatures of red stars can be cooler. These are followed by yellow as low as 2,000 ℃ (3,600 ºF). TEMPERATURE (℃) 50,000 10,000 5,000 3.500 2,000 O 90,000 18,000 9.000 6,300 3.600 PROMINENT COLOR TEMPERATURE ('F) Stars radiate light at all wavelengths, but their color (spectral type) depends on the wavelength that is most intensely radiated. FACT FILE