What is the color of the sun?
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The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow in approximately equal amounts and we call this combination white. That is w...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6080744

The sun is not yellow or orange as we see in books and movies. It emits all the colours in the visible spectrum (also in other spectrums as well) making it white!

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is white when seen from space. Here on Earth, the atmosphere disperses the blue part of the spectrum so that the blue sunlight comes to our eyes from all directions, making the sky blue. Without the blue light, the sun appears more yellow. So the color depends on your point of view :)