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2007-07-02 03:14:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It is white. You can see that. It looks yellow or red at sunrise and sunset only because the atmosphere scatters away much of the blue light when the Sun is near the horizon. But at noon, when the Sun is high in a clear sky, it is obviously white.
Now many astronomy books call it yellow, but that is misleading. Even the coolest red star is mostly white. It is just a redder shade of white. And even the hottest blue star is white, but a piercing blue-white. Our sun is a "warm white" with just a touch of yellow which is only noticeable when compared to some really blue light, like mercury vapor street lights or the normal "cool white" fluorescent lights (the 4 foot tubes you see in all the stores and offices).
2007-07-02 04:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
White
2007-07-02 10:16:51 · answer #2 · answered by dawn_villarruel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Due to it being a black-body radiator of essentially the correct heat to produce light across the entire visible spectrum, it can be considered white. But since it produces slightly less blue light in proportion, it can also be noticed that it appears yellow or yellow-orange.
2007-07-02 10:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by billgoats79 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We really don't know. Our best guess is that it has the same color as fire. However, our eyes determine color by its wave lengths. An object could be red, and at a certain angle and distance I could perceive it as pink or even grey.
Being that we are 93 million miles away from the sun, we could perceive it as a certain color or even miss certain colors it has due to wave lengths that can not reach us are in the process of reaching us.
2007-07-02 10:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by nw4life2004 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Mostly the sky is blue, plants are green so it is obvious that the Sun must be yellow ( blue+yellow=green). It sounds logical.
2007-07-02 10:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It looks like its yellow to us on earth. But when astronaunts take pictures it looks red like fire. But, the answer is it is white!
2007-07-02 11:02:14 · answer #6 · answered by SDC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our sun is classified as a yellow dwarf.
2007-07-02 10:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yellow or orange color
2007-07-02 10:21:56 · answer #8 · answered by Stumpy36 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lime green...no really it's actually white.
2007-07-02 13:20:08 · answer #9 · answered by ftrastronaut 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yellow/orange.
2007-07-02 10:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by IKnowBest32 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋