Star sizes, colours and temperatures

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    In the real world there is an incredible variation in the size, heat and colour of a star. Anything from a colder red, through yellow/white to a hot, deep blue.

    I suggest that making stars in these different aspects would provide a more enticing vision. Not the bright glare of a white sun all of the time. Sometimes it could be a deep red star which only displays an orange glow on hull or even a blue star which is sometimes twice as bright as simple white.

    Concerning sizes of these stars, the red stars are usually the biggest through the medium sized white/yellow, to the small blues. This is not always the case but it normally is.

    On to the heat of the stars, In relation to the heat of the white stars already on Starmade, then red would about half the temperature and blue would be double. The start of the danger zone where the heat starts destroying hull. The intensity could relate to these particular temperatures.

    The rarity of the stars is roughly as follows :

    Red/Orange : 75%/10% of most stars

    Yellow/White : 8%/3.1% of most stars

    Blue-White/Blue 0.63%/0.13% of most stars

    To follow these if varied stars where to be placed in Starmade would provide an accurate colour to the stars and provide different scenic backgrounds that the simple white star.

    Thanks for reading and best wishes,

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    Blue stars are the generally bigger, unless compared to a very large red giant. They are blue because of the amount of heat they are sending out into space. Red giants are large, but they are only that big because they run out of hydrogen to fuse into helium and they start to burn helium instead. I like the idea though. The blue stars could go hypernova and leave a black hole behind! The normal sized stars, like the yellow-white ones could turn into red giants and leave planetary nebulae behind. The rarity is a nice touch too.