Earthsky FAQs
Why are flames of fire different colors?
11-28-2009 - Earth
If you look into a wood fire, then up in the night sky, you might see the same colors in the flames as you see in the stars. But is there a correlation between these fire colors and the colors of the stars?
The colors of stars indicate their temperatures. Blue-white Vega is hotter than red Aldebaran. Star colors stem from “black-body radiation”, the same sort of radiation you see in metal heated to red, orange, or white heat. The orange glow seen between logs in the heart of a fire is also black-body radiation
But the orange seen in the actual tongues of flame is not. Instead, the colors of flames in a wood fire are due to different substances in the flames. The bright orange of most wood flames is due to the presence of sodium, which, when heated, emits light strongly in the orange. The blue in wood flames comes from carbon and hydrogen, which emit in the blue and violet. Copper compounds make green or blue, lithium makes red.
this is a bunch of bull all fire exibit the same couler pattern just in deferent degrees heat is the magnafacatoin of friction that is why you also see it in the suns heat emission science 101 abert e
The point of the question is missed? The answer is, “yes”. When a fire burns a similar element that is also present in the “Star”, it will burn at the same temperature therefore emitting the same color if all other relative elements present are equal.