One Star Has a Temperature of 10,000 K and Another

question 58

Multiple Choice

One star has a temperature of 10,000 K and another star has a temperature of 5,000 K. Compared to the cooler star, how much more energy per second will the hotter star radiate from each square meter of its surface?

• A) 16 times
• B) 2 times
• C) 1 × 10¹⁶ times
• D) 625 times
• E) 25 times

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