If the sky is blue and the sun is yellow why is it that the sun's rays dont produce a green light?

Answer 1

the sky is a reflection not a solid color

Answer 2

The sky is blue because of the sun being filtered by the ozone layer, it has to do with physics and the effect the ozone (or any other layer as same) has on the spectrum of light. Thus the sun cant merge with the colour of the sky, as it is the cause for the sky's colour. Its a rough description!!

Answer 3

Becuase the authorities is all like 'OoOo..quite shades...enable's make this that and that this' so as that they made the skt blue the grass eco-friendly and the solar yellow only to spite all persons those who needed the sky eco-friendly the grass..properly not useless-yellow yet a very good yellow and the solar blue! haha..j/ok i'm only on a sugar-hyper-thingy

Answer 4

The sun is not actually yellow. It emits various types of energy and raidiation. A small fraction of the energy emitted is in the form of visible light. Also, you must take into consideration that ozone in the atmosphere is not actually blue it is clear. The blue is you see is actually a reaction to various types of raidiation that the atmosphere prevents from reaching the earths surface. Although green sunlight would be cool. Visit the website below for more interesting information.

Answer 5

The sun appears yellow exactly because the blue part of its light spectrum got scattered! Add the blue color of the sky with the yellow sun that you see, and you'll get perfect white light.

Answer 6

If you look at the spectral power density of the radiation coming from the sun (i.e. you look at how much of each light color the sun emanates) you will see that it peaks around a wavelength of ~500 nanometers, which loosely speaking corresponds to green light. A lot of blue light (wavelength < 500 nm) and yellow light (wavelength > 500 nm) is also emitted. Now, the wavelength of the light is inversely proportional to its frequency, so large wavelength correspond to short frequencies, and vice versa. It turns out that molecular scattering of radiation (i.e. light) is proportional to the fourth power of frequency, so light of higher frequency (lower wavelength) tends to get scattered more than light of lower frequency (longer wavelength). The process of molecular scattering that takes place in the earth's atmosphere does not really affect the long wavelength light (yellow & red light) which then reaches the surface of the earth unhindered (think of this color light traveling a straight path from the sun to your eyes) and makes the sun look reddish-yellow. Short wavelength light is however subject to a lot of scattering in the atmosphere (instead of traveling a straight path from the sun to the earth it bounces around the molecules in the atmosphere which absorb it and later emit blue light of their own which eventually reaches our eyes) which is why the sky looks blue. Actually, the sky would look violet (violet light has a shorter wavelength than blue light and is thus subject to more scattering were it not that the power spectral density of sunlight rolls off with increasing frequency, as does our ability to detect light (human eyes are only sensitive to a small range of light wavelengths centered around 500 nm, which I would guess is an evolutionary response to the type of light available from the sun).

Answer 7

Your premise is incorrect. The sky is not blue in and of itself and is not a source of light as the sun is. Of course, also, the sun isn't "yellow."

Answer 8

The sky is colorless...and the sun isn't yellow...light refraction gives the illusion of blue...the sun's light is filtered for millions of miles...

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

Answer 10

it's God's good will!