Today we used the Bunsen burners in Delta to conduct and experiment where we burned different metal chlorides. I burned sodium chloride and magnesium, when I burned the sodium chloride it burned an orange flame and when I burned the magnesium chloride it fizzled and expanded to look like a marshmallow.
I think the experiment was not accurate representation of star colors because the star color depends on the temperature that it is and our experiment did not include the temperature changing.
However I think that with planets our experiment was an accurate representation because different planets are made of different metals, for instance mars is made of oxidized iron (aka rusty iron), making it a reddish brown color.
So to conclude I think that our experiment is an accurate representation for planets, but not stars.
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