Is the sun yellow or is it white?
2007-11-22 10:19:09 · 14 answers · asked by Amarante 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's white, look at photographs taken from space and you'll see that it is a very pure white.
On Earth the sun appears to be yellow because blue light is scattered out away from the sun to light up the rest of the sky leaving a peak in the yellow end of the spectrum.
2007-11-22 10:39:45 · answer #1 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The sun is all the colors put together or white. The sun only looks yellow due to the light being bent in a wavelength not too short or too long. The sun doesn't just produce visible light it produces radio microwave thermal and soft ultraviolet too. The sun is classified as a main sequence star which are usually made out to be orange/yellowish when seen through an atmosphere.
2007-11-23 00:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Sun is white. Many people mistakenly think it's yellow or red because that's the colour it appears when it is low in the sky, the only time you can look at it directly. But it's really white.
2007-11-22 18:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand why the sky is blue and why the sun looks yellow to us on
earth but would the sun look white if I were to look at it while I was in
space since its light had yet to be scattered? I know I couldn't look
directly at the sun but let's just say I took a quick glance. Would it
appear to be white?
2007-11-22 18:30:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sun, when viewed from space looks like a ball of molten lava, red, with both bright yellow dots and black dots. Through our atmosphere it can look anywhere from white to red, depending upon the atmospheric conditions.
2007-11-22 19:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by Content is another word for lazy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Sun lets out light in all parts of the spectrum, from radio to x-rays (and sometimes even gamma rays). So it emits red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. However, it emits more in the green than any other wavelength. So technically, the Sun is green - but that color of light is scattered efficiently by our atmosphere and our eyes aren't very sensative to it, so we see it normally as yellow.
2007-11-22 18:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
ah the classic question. the sun is every color! white is a combination of every visible spectrum of light. have you ever seen a ray of sunlight divided up by a crystal?
2007-11-24 05:57:39 · answer #7 · answered by Sanwi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun are the colors of yellow and red.it might seem white to you being that the sun's radiation is bright sorta like a supernova reaction.
2007-11-22 18:40:05 · answer #8 · answered by superstar14 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's yellow. Classification G4, a little yellow star.
2007-11-22 18:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think maybe yellow
2007-11-22 18:22:25 · answer #10 · answered by Alen J 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋