Fine to have that opinion, and as I said, there's a lot in Sins that isn't accurate. It wouldn't really be any fun if it was perfectly accurate. However, I do want to herald a warning: Whenever possible, things should be accurate. There are actual science books given to children that say that there is such a thing as green and violet stars.

Why do such things happen? Because the people who select books for children are not experts in the field or anything. They have people removed from history books because they never heard of them... They do this because they only know what they have experienced.

I feel that people in the know have a responsibility to be accurate whenever possible so that the people that don't care, that don't bother to check things out, they can't screw it up as badly. If every space game had green stars in it, a lot more people would believe they are possible. Now, most games are pretty good about this, and there are still issues. I don't lay all the blame on Sins or even video games in general. But every little bit of accuracy helps promote a culture of accuracy, of knowledge. This is the best we can do if we are unable to get the right people for jobs such as selecting books.

So let me put it like this: I would vote to swap green stars for white stars.

I concur...I agree with your general premise, it may be "just a game" but having green stars isn't exactly helping the gameplay in anyway...a swap from greeen to white would be very appropriate, but I don't think it's going to happen...

Seeing as Gal Civ II also has green (and purple/pink) stars, someone at SD who does their games' stars either knows nothing about space or just wants pretty colors...in either case, I seriously doubt you're going to encourage them to change...

ok heres an argument for you are the vasari real? should they be thought to kids? is killing easy? should kids be killing in video games? (MW3, BF3?) in soaso is it morally correct to "teach" kids to bombard a planet.

relax sith they are kids if they will be interested in to WHY THE STAR IS GREEN and whats the difference scientifically? then they will find out on their own

part of being a kid is to have heroes and believe in things unbelievable u think kids care more about the color or the actual science behind it (the star in SOASE?) i think they would prefer a green looking star rather then a white one! +this has nothing to do with some one telling a lie "most of all Syfy fantasy games" have things that do not exist in real life. kids will eventually figure out things that are real and things that are not- its not worth stressing over the color of a star

and if ur still wanting white stars - make a mod with only white stare of  just no green ones 

p.s. most video game are not made for education- they are made for entertainment (at lease in europe ppl think that) maybe in america kids believe in what they see in video games....

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970408e.html

well green stars exist according to this article, there are green stars but they emit yellow or white light!

so make texture green and glow yellow (everything solved)

The article is, quite simply, wrong...or more precisely, the author is ambiguous and either is outright wrong or partially right but contradicts themself (hard to tell since it's so short and lacks details)...

Let us first establish some basic physical concepts:

• Electromagnetic radiation has a spectrum, with visible light somewhere in the middle...for simplicity, we shall stick to the partcle understanding of electromagnetic radiation,....so, EM radiation is actually vast quantities of particles called photons...
• Colors like violet and blue correspond to shorter wavelengths (higher energy photons) while colors like red and orange correspond to longer wavelengths (lower energy photons)...
• All matter constantly emits EM radiation...this is known as blackbody radiation...
• Blackbody radiation manifests itself as a distribution of EM radiation with photons of varying wavelengths (energies)...this distribution is somewhat similar to a gaussian distribution (bell curve) though technically it has a different functional form...the "peak" of the bell curve would correspond to the wavelength that is emitted the most (not a majority, but more than any other wavelength)...we shall call this the "peak wavelength"...
• Temperature corresponds to black body emission in two ways:
• Hotter objects have a shorter "peak wavelenght" (more energy per photon)
• Hotter objects emit more radiation as a whole (more total photons)

Star color is determined by temperature...red stars have "cool" temperatures where the "peak wavelength" is closer to red than the rest of the visible light spectrum....blue stars have "hot" temperatures where the "peak wavelength" is closer to blue than the rest of the visible light spectrum...

So, what if a star's "peak wavelength" corresponded to green?  Recall that the radiation emitted is not all of the same wavelength, but is rather a distribution...even if green is the "peak wavelength", comparable amounts of red and blue will also be emitted...while the green photons may be the most numerous, they do not significantly outnumber the other colors, and so you have a decent mix of all the colors which, as you may know, makes white light...

In general, star colors (going from coldest to hottest temperature) go from red to yellow to white to blue...

Very cool stars such as brown dwarfs have a "peak wavelength" way outside that of the visible spectrum (probably in the infrared)...this does not mean they don't emit visible light, but rather they don't emit as much visible light due to their temperature as hotter stars do...because of this, other sources of visible light such as electron excitation may become noticeable and affect the star's apparent color...this would be the only way you could ever get a star color outside of the conventional red -> orange -> yellow -> white -> blue spectrum, and I'm not aware of any stars theorized to emit mostly green (though I'm sure there are some gas giants that may)...

"Yes, stars of every color in the rainbow exist. In fact a star's color tells us something very important about it -- its temperature."

I guess this quote from the article is what bothers me the most, as it seems to me to clearly say green stars exist (hell, that any color exists)....

Dang, how do you know that?  (Assuming you are being serious which you generally are)...

google searched him. not going to rip on someone who has higher certifications then me in the subject when i dont know anything about them