How is possible for lightning to be 5 times hotter than the Sun?
In: Planetary Science
You can imagine the sun as a hot object. You know like when you heat metal, the hotter it is, the more white it glows? the sun is like very hot metal. This glowing is called „black body radiation“ and everything has one. Most objects around you are so cool that your eyes cannot see them but an infrared camera can. Now LEDs are different. They do not „glow“ like a lightbulb or the sun, but rather create a peculiar spectrum from electron emission. So giving those lights a „temperature“ is kind of wrong. You just name the heat of an equivalent hot object with the color you want to describe, but the LED is still rather cool. This is also why it uses less energy than a lightbulb of the same color.
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