When stars like the Sun die, they lose their outer layers and expose their very hot cores. These exposed cores are called white dwarf stars. A certain white dwarf star has a peak emission wavelength of 0.546 nm. Approximating the star as a blackbody, what is its surface temperature?   Wien's Displacement constant is b = 2.898 x 10-3 K m. The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is ? = 5.670 x 10-8 W/m2K4.

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When stars like the Sun die, they lose their outer layers and expose their very hot cores. These exposed cores are called white dwarf stars. A certain white dwarf star has a peak emission wavelength of 0.546 nm. Approximating the star as a blackbody, what is its surface temperature?

 

Wien's Displacement constant is b = 2.898 x 10-3 K m.

The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is ? = 5.670 x 10-8 W/m2K4.

 
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