Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

[Patrick Chewing]

I remember coloring in kindergarten and when it was time to draw the sun, all the kids would grab the yellow crayons to draw the sun and I would stand there with a puzzled look on my face. The sun was clearly orange to me. The real strange kid in class always picked red to draw the sun, but he was weird so we didn't think much of it. Either that, or he was color blind.


So is the sun yellow or is it orange??

[TheMan]

It's a bright intense yellow at mid day, turns orange as it sets, no?

[Chick Stern]

It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.

[TheMan]

Just wanted to clear up what I said, it doesn't literally turn orange when it sets, that's only from our point of view.

[Patrick Chewing]

It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.

F*ck you man.

[Chick Stern]

F*ck you man.

Facts are hard

[Rolando]

One of the interesting things about matter and the universe is this: No matter what the material an object or different objects are made of, they will glow exactly at the same color depending on their temperature. So, because of the sun's specific temperature, it has a specific color. A hotter star would be even whiter than the sun which is comparatively yellow.

Edit: Hotter stars actually get more blue.

[Patrick Chewing]

Edit: Hotter stars actually get more blue.

This m'fer right here.

:facepalm

[bladefd]

It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.

Exactly what I came here to post. Color of the sun that we see is determined by our atmosphere. Sun sends white light so it includes all wavelengths. Earth acts like a prism where it deflects+absorbs the large wavelengths like blue. Yellow, on the other hand, is a very short wavelength that doesn't get absorbed or reflected so that's the color that reaches our eyes - thus yellow sun when not directly overhead but located at a regular daytime angle. It's like kind of blueish when directly overhead due to atmosphere at its' thinnest. It's red at sunrise/sunset because that's the angle the atmosphere is at its' thickest.

On Mars, it would be blue because of thin atmosphere not absorbing/deflecting very much of the light wavelengths (might actually be kind of whiteish if sun is directly overhead on Mars). You would only see pure white with zero atmosphere like I guess on an asteroid/Pluto or if directly flying in space.

[Jasper]

It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.

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[Meticode]

Just came to say I believe it's when when you're free from the atmosphere. At least to our eyes.

[Patrick Chewing]

Yellow or Orange! It ain't that hard!

[Rolando]

This m'fer right here.

:facepalm

Bwahahahahaha!

[Draz]

Yall blind? The shit is orange

[Axe]

Isn't this lovely?

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