# Looking at the night sky, do (any of the stars seem colored to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026 "2013-01-22T18:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/21 "2013-01-23T12:31:03Z")
I have seen the planets radiate colour, but the stars generally look uniformly white. If there’s any perception of colour I think I must subconsciously dismiss it as an illusion, so I don’t sense it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/22 "2013-01-23T12:58:02Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Dude, [don’t even go there](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737). So…this is all the NAACP can find to get outraged about? Looks like racism has finally been beaten in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/23 "2013-01-23T14:15:22Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Dude, [don’t even go there](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737). Wow. I thought that was going to be a link to a different example of ignorant fucknuttery. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/24 "2013-01-23T17:58:13Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Dude, [don’t even go there](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737). :smack: I don’t want to live on this planet any more. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/25 "2013-01-23T18:31:13Z")
I voted “no” because normally the stars all look alike to me, though when I was out watching for meteors a few weeks back I did notice that Betelgeuse had a red hue to it. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/26 "2013-01-24T07:32:13Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Dude, [don’t even go there](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737). I was only kidding. Sadly, you were not. ☹ > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > So…this is all the NAACP can find to get outraged about? Looks like racism has finally been beaten in the USA. You might be on to something here. Talk about looking for a reason to justify your existance. “laughing and joking at blackness…AGAIN!”. Seriously, WTF? Does the NAACP know that black holes are a supposedly real, existing object in space? I didn’t hear an “r”, nor do I hear the phrase “nappy-headed” (ala Don Imus) before the words black hole. These people are nuts. > [@tdn](#): > > Wow. I thought that was going to be a link to a different example of ignorant fucknuttery. As did I. However, this example of ignorant fucknuttery is going to be difficult to beat. > [@Malacandra](#): > > :smack: > > I don’t want to live on this planet any more. ☹ My thoughts exactly. What a pathetic lot we are. And the NAACP is so on top of things! The card has been out for only 3 years. Perhaps they need to hire more “card listening agents” or whatever. Well done, NAACP! You’ve foiled another attempt at blatant racism by corporate America. :rolleyes: Back to your regularly scheduled thread. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/27 "2013-01-24T13:32:37Z")
Voted twice: I get kinda a queasy feeling looking up at the sky, with all that infinite distance and feeling so tiny. But, back when I did do it, I don’t remember ever seeing colored stars. Even Venus, which was supposed to look yellow, looked white/gray. The only time I did see color, it turned out not to be a star. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026/28 "2013-01-24T13:39:05Z")
I don’t see ‘colors among the stars’, I see colo_u_red stars. Do you see ‘green among the grass’, huh? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-at-the-night-sky-do-any-of-the-stars-seem-colored-to-you/648026.md?page=1)