why was the sun all yellow and orange and a weird color today?

Question

i need to know

Answer 1

I thought the sun was usually yellow/orange. Maybe, where you are, there was some air pollution that caused apparently weird discolouring.

Answer 2

When you post a question like this, you really need to tell us exactly where you live. Unusual colour of the Sun and Moon is almost always a local situation, due to pollution of some kind. Here in southern Ontario, for example, there's a major smog alert over a large area, so I'd expect to see a strangely coloured Sun and Moon. I remember a few years ago when there were serious forest fires in western Ontario, I looked out the window at three in the afternoon, and the Sun was blood red.

Answer 3

Sunlight is light that includes a spectrum of wavelengths (from violet down to red) that when combined appears white.

Sunlight passes through the atmosphere to get to our eyes. The water vapour, dust, smoke, normal air, and pollution particles in the air can scatter or reflect different wavelengths of the light, leaving some colours of the light more pronounced.
All the particles in the air (smoke, dust, pollution, water vapour, etc.) are just the right size to 'scatter' the blue wavelengths of light, leaving more of the red, orange, and yellow light left over to reach our eyes.

Its that same scattering that makes the sky blue and makes the sun appear yellow (its actually pure white when viewed from outside our atmosphere).

Answer 4

Neither: the sunlight is white. the persons who answer "yellow" have in no way looked on the sunlight by means of a telescope! The sunlight is white, as seen while intense interior the sky with a impartial image voltaic clear out. the rationalization human beings _think_ the sunlight is yellow is they have in effortless terms seen it while this is low interior the sky, shining by means of a huge quantity of the Earth's environment and pollutants. and don't enable its type as a "yellow dwarf" fool you: this is white. additionally, the sunlight ought to continually be written with a capital "S" as this is a suitable noun, a place. in any different case, this is purely any old sunlight, no longer our sunlight. comparable for the Moon.

Answer 5

Smog. It's actually in the atmosphere, the sun didn't change color. Rather, the atmosphere between the Earth and the sun changed in content (ie, more particles or denser, or different chemical composition) and that alters the path of the light to the earth (your eyes).

Answer 6

Where do you live? In my area, the sun had an orange tint because of all the wildfires going on.

Answer 7

It depends on what's in the atmosphere near the ground.
When the sun is at a low angle, dust & smoke affect colour.

Answer 8

Global Warming

Answer 9

It could be one of two things, either there is a wild fire burning in your area, or the smoke from Mount Etna has arrived at your location.

Answer 10

its sad to say but ol sunny is burning out,it will turn into a red giant in a matter of weeks,im already getting my spacecraft ready to blast off to a safer area of the solar system...............