What color is the SUN?

Question

So it is true that the sun is white. That is absolutely the truth!

Answer 1

white.

since our eyes evolved under sunlight, we don't see the sun as having any colour.

spectroscopically, the sun's maximum intensity is in green light. but it's a very broad peak, and see the first point for why we don't see the sun, or any other stars, as green.

Answer 2

It is all colors technically, but astronomically it's considered a yellow sun.

Answer 3

Technically our sun is a yellow dwarf star, but we see it visually as a glaring white because it's so close and large in the sky. More correctly, the sun emits what's known as white light which contains all the colors of the rainbow.

Answer 4

It emits every color in the spectrum. However, we do not see true, vivid colors when outdoors because of the diffusing effects of the Earth's atmosphere. It is indoors when we use special "true white" lights that colors take on a more vivid tone. The sky is blue because that is the color that is mostly reflected back down at us as light bounces back of the surface. With the Oceans taking on the blue color because of the sky as well, blue tends to effect most everything outdoors.

Answer 5

fire

Answer 6

To our eyes it is white, the color temperature is 5800 deg Kelvin.

Answer 7

Our sun has emission lines at several colors, but it has two very strong lines right next to each other at around 590nm, which is fairly yellow. So our sun's light, though really spread across many colors, peaks in the yellow range; this is true whether or not you have the atmosphere between us an the sun. On the H-R diagram, our sun is a G-class (yellow to yellowish orange) star. Your eye doesn't see the actual color of the light waves it receives. Instead, it has three types of "photo receptors", which produce a neural response when they intercept light of specific colors. The receptors are called "red" "green" and "blue", although those names are something of a misnomer. Any of them can detect most light that comes in. However, they each produce their strongest response when the light they "see" is closest to their color. For example, the red receptor produces a strong response when red light falls on it, a medium response when yellow or dark red light falls on it, and little response at all when blue light falls on it. Your eye figures out what color an object is by comparing the different responses of the red, green, and blue receptors. Soft yellow light causes a partial response in both the red and green receptors (yellow is in between red and blue in the spectrum), and a poor response in the blue receptors. So anytime your eye sees a bit of red and a bit of green in the same place with no blue, it thinks "yellow!". If your eye sees a strong response from all three receptors, it detects WHITE.

If I was to combine the physics understanding of the nature of sunlight with an understanding of how our eyes and brain perceive that light, i can get a reasonably good answer to your question. There are four elements affecting the color you perceive:

   1. The spectral content of the sun's light. (it's mostly white with a slightly stronger yellow component).

   2. The effect of what's between you and the sun on the spectral content of the light.

   3. The effect that light has on your eye's photo receptors.

   4. The way your brain interprets the responses from those photo receptors and it's comparison with nearby colors.

Answer 8

The sun is white. If we are in the space the sum will be white but we are in the Earth and the sun is yellow. Yellow because there is so much dust, gasses etc in the atmosphere and the light is disperset and the sun look like yellow

Answer 9

yellow to keep simple