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How far can a star's visual colour deviate from black body radiation?
The primary driver of a star's colour is its temperature, by way of black-body radiation.
Black body radiation restricts stellar colour to a narrow slice of the full RGB spectrum.
However, all stars ...
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In what manner is the spectrum of a black body really a continuum?
Usually they say the spectrum of a black body is a continuum and emits radiation at every frequency. Is it really a continuum like a line or are there (small) intervals?
For example, can a body emit ...
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