Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  ES UMa  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031  ·  TYC4383-1031-1  ·  TYC4383-1121-1  ·  TYC4383-1127-1  ·  TYC4383-150-1  ·  TYC4383-2044-1  ·  TYC4383-242-1  ·  TYC4383-338-1  ·  TYC4383-565-1  ·  TYC4383-698-1  ·  TYC4383-727-1  ·  TYC4383-738-1  ·  TYC4383-767-1  ·  TYC4383-788-1  ·  TYC4383-794-1  ·  TYC4383-847-1  ·  TYC4383-848-1  ·  TYC4383-848-2  ·  TYC4383-860-1
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Bode's galaxy

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Bode's galaxy

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Bode's galaxy, reprocessed using StarTools 1.8.
this image place an emphasis on star colors. For this image, I used the Astronomik RGB filters.
Around M81, a good mix of blue, yellow and red stars can be found.
Blue stars are hot 10,000 to 60,000 kelvin (surface temperature)
white stars are 6500 to 10,000 k
yellow stars like our sun, 5,000 to 6500k
red stars are less than 5,000k at an average temperature of 3,000 kelvin.

The mass, luminance and life duration of a star are somewhat related. The larger the star, the faster hydrogen is consumed. Some larger blue giant stars will burn hydrogen only for millions of years, whereas our yellow sun, will consume hydrogen for billions of years.

keep looking up!

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