is a star at 220 million kelvins possible?

[shortylickens]

I ask because Georgi LaForge and Charles Winchester just tried to do it.
Got curious and looked up some info on the internet. Apparently stars closer to 11 thousand kelvins are more realistic.

 

[vark]

Being a forgettable episode for me, I had to look it up, and see that the plan was to "revitalize" a star using photon torpedos. 'kay. Overall it just looks like very bad science. The hottest detected stars appear to have an "effective temperature" (photosphere) of ~200,000K and seem to be extremely rare. Ol' SOL is listed at 5772K. Core temperatures are much greater but also largely speculative, at least until an adamantium probe with a subspace connection is invented. Still, 220 million K is trivial compared to the theoretical Planck temperature, so if the star in question could be stabilized to endure a given temperature, then sure, why not? No idea how but, then, neither did the writer of the episode, apparently. Oopsie.

 

[MongGrel]

NM wrong celestial event.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Apparently the RHIC in NY managed 4 trillion K working with quark-gluon plasmas, so there's that. The white dwarf at the center of the Red Spider Nebula was calc'd at over 300,000K. Supernova can go much higher apparently, into billions of K. So, if I were to guess, I'd say that it's unlikely that a star could be sustained at 220 million K. It'd either be on it's way to a nova, or that'd be a 'flash in the pan' temperature to trigger 'something sciencey'.