Stars from cool red supergiants to hot blue-white stars: colours calculated from measured temperatures, and images where they exist.
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Betelgeuse
Star
Betelgeuse, Orion’s red supergiant: a colour calculated from its temperature during the 2020 Great Dimming, beside VLT and ALMA images.
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Proxima Centauri
Star · Alpha Centauri A
The nearest star to the Sun is a small, cool red dwarf. Its calculated colour is a deep orange.
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Rigel
Star
Rigel, Orion’s brilliant blue-white supergiant, calculated from its measured 12,000 K temperature.
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Sirius
Star
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, calculated from its measured temperature to a cool white.
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Sun
Star
The Sun is white in visible light. See its calculated colour next to NASA SDO images whose orange and gold are assigned to the light they record.
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Aldebaran
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 3,927 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Alpha Centauri A
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 5,792 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Alpha Centauri B
Star · Alpha Centauri A
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 5,231 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Antares
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 3,660 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Arcturus
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 4,286 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Menkar
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 3,796 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Muphrid
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 6,099 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Pollux
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 4,858 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Procyon
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 6,554 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Sirius B
Star · Sirius
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 25,193 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Spica
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 24,800 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Tau Ceti
Star
A star whose effective temperature has been measured as about 5,414 K. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
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Colours belong to the images and models they were sampled from, not permanently to an object. Positions in the colour atlas are colours, not places in space.