How Is Temperature Written into Light?

Why does a hotter object move its broad brightness peak toward shorter wavelengths?

Read the broad shape of thermal emission before looking for narrow chemical features.

A cooler orange star and a hotter blue-white star face each other across a continuous spectrum in deep space. — Vastward artistic reconstruction. Stellar color introduces the question; the interactive thermal curve carries the quantitative meaning.

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