If the sun was not burning what color would it be?
2007-01-02 03:28:53 · 20 answers · asked by Cameron K 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
green, maybe even turquoise!
2007-01-02 03:30:18 · answer #1 · answered by ♫cabaret/rckr♫ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an interesting point. Something's "color" is defined as either (a) the frequency of visible light it emits, or (b) the frequency of visible light it reflects.
Thus, we say that the color of a laser light at a rock concert is red, or blue, or whatever, because it is light. And we say that the color of a car is also red, or blue, or whatever, although it's only reflecting light, not emitting it.
The sun appears to be white (or yellow) because we see all (or almost all) visible light frequencies coming from it. It sometimes appears orange or reddish at sunrise and sunset because there's sometimes lots of dust in the atmosphere that absorbs some of the bluish frequencies (leaving the redder ones for us to see).
The sun is mostly hydrogen (74%) and helium (25%). The way it would appear if it weren't combusting would depend on what state it was in: is it a gas? Is it a liquid? Gaseous hydrogen is mostly red.
2007-01-02 11:41:23 · answer #2 · answered by TimmyD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it wasn't burning, it would be red -- the majority of the mass of the sun is hydrogen, much of it singly ionized, which emits light at 752 nanometers wavelength -- a nice deep red color.
In terms of stellar "colors," the sun is a yellow star, classified as a middle-of-the-road "G" type. Slightly towards the yellow from white. More massive stars are bluer, less massive stars are redder.
2007-01-02 11:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the color of burning gases vary depending on the gas that is burning it Can be blue green yellow orange or white if the sun was not burning it would be clear to cloudy being that gasses only give off color when they are burning
2007-01-02 11:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by doobiemanrfrank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the sun is counted as a star and is the hottest star in the universe.Right now it would probably be red,yellow,and maybe even blue in the middle of it when the sun dies out it would be black on a count of it falling on earth and destroying all human life but when the sun dies out it would be milllions of years
2007-01-03 11:15:09 · answer #5 · answered by marissajo2112 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its yellow, because the sun is a 1 solar mass star and growing a little red every year due to the amount of fuel being consumed. very little that we cannot even tell the difference. but if it was not burning it would be black. no fuel to burned and it would be a black dwarf.
2007-01-02 15:52:40 · answer #6 · answered by Animusic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the sun was not burning it would be dark and you could not see it. Actually that would be the least of your problems since the earth would be frozen solid to a few hundred degrees below zero and we would all be dead on our frozen world.
2007-01-02 11:32:27 · answer #7 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is classed as a G2 yellow star. If it were not burning, it would be black
2007-01-02 11:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by mxzptlk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not burning? Then it would be red since it would be cool and only radiating heat that it got during it's formation. Stars like this do exist which don't have sufficient mass to have nuclear reactions in their cores, and we call them brown dwarfs.
2007-01-02 12:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White.
2007-01-02 11:34:17 · answer #10 · answered by Surveyor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
colourless, sun is actually the combination of many gases such as hydrogen helium oxygen nitrogen etc, if sun is not burning i am sure there will be no any colour on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-06 08:22:39 · answer #11 · answered by KIASHU 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋