Hot stars are easily visible in the night sky, but cool stars, which are much more...
Hot stars are easily visible in the night sky, but cool stars, which are much more common are much fainter. For example, the star nearest the Sun has a surface temperature of only 300 K and we cannot see it without a telescope. At what wavelength of light is this nearest star the brightest?
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