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The real colour of the Sun is white and all the colours of the rainbow.

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Every colour of the spectrum is included in the Sun, so it is white!

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Just as the sea is blue, but the water is colorless.
The colors that come to our eyes

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The color of the sun is not only yellow, it is all colors mixed togheter.. Actually, the colors themselves are only an illusion, in fact it is our brain to interpretate the different wave lengths that reach our retina. It is a bit complicated , but it can be explained to our students too ;)

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I think that sun is white but sometimes takes and other colours

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Sun is white.

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Actually, the light emited by the sun is white. moreover, the wavelenght corresponding to the maximum of intensity is .. green!

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Certainly, the sun is white.
But... What can we do with our picture´s children

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The colour of the sun is white...

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What Color is the Sun?
What color do YOU think the Sun is?

Summary of Activity:

Young children usually color the Sun yellow or orange, or even red. Have you ever thought about what color the Sun actually is? How do you think you could find out what color the Sun really is (without look at it directly)? Below is an exploration for you to try.

What color do you think the Sun is?

Try this before you read further:
How could you determine what color the Sun is as seen from Earth?

It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red. However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white. This is easy to see in pictures taken from space.

Rainbows are light from the Sun, separated into its colors. Each color in the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet) has a different wavelength. Red is the longest, blue the shortest.

When we see the Sun at sunrise or sunset, when it is low in the sky, it may appear yellow, orange, or red. But that is only because its short-wavelength colors (green, blue, violet) are scattered out by the Earth's atmosphere, much like small waves are dispersed by big rocks along the shore. Hence only the reds, yellows, and oranges get through the thick atmosphere to our eyes.

When the Sun is high in the sky, the shorter waves, primarily the blue, strike air molecues in the upper atmosphere and bounce around and scatter. Hence explaining why the sky looks blue.

Some people think that enough blue light is scattered out in the Earth's atmosphere to cause the Sun to appear slightly yellow. What do you think?

Some think that the Sun's output in visible light peaks in the yellow. However, the Sun's visible output peaks in the green:

So why are the solar images sometimes green, or blue, or red, or orange? View current images of the Sun

Actually, all forms of light and energy are part of the same phenomena: the electromagnetic spectrum. Our eyes can detect only a small amount of this energy, that portion we call "visible light." Radio waves, X-rays, microwaves, gamma rays, and the rest all have longer or shorter wavelengths than visible light, but otherwise are the same phenomena.

Scientific instruments can sometimes detect light that our eyes cannot. When people want to look at those, say, X-ray or ultraviolet images, they need to color them something that our eyes can detect. So the scientists pick some bright color, a color that would never be confused with viewing the Sun in white light. That way, we know from seeing a picture of a neon green or bright red Sun that the image was actually taken in some non-seeable version of light such as extreme ultraviolet or X-rays.

It is hard for many people, even scientists, to admit that the Sun they are so used to living with is actually white. So sometimes they even color pictures of the Sun taken in visible or "white" light to look more like something we would expect. Below is a picture of the Sun taken in visible white light, but which the scientists have processed to make it appear orange, for our benefit!

Image courtesy ESA/NASA/SOHO

Sometimes the display color of the Sun is culturally determined. If a kindergartener in the USA colors a picture of the Sun, they will usually make it yellow. However, a kindergartener in Japan would normally color it red!

In spite of these "artistic licenses", the Sun really is white!

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What Color is the Sun? What color do YOU think the Sun is? Summary of Activity: Young children usually color the Sun yellow or orange, or even red. Have you ever thought about what color the Sun actually is? How do you think you could find out what color the Sun really is (without look at it directly)?

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If we could see the Sun directly, we would see it as white color because Sun light includes all colors inside and when they gather together it becomes white.

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Ask anyone, "what color is the Sun"? and they'll tell you the obvious answer: it's yellow.

But is it really?

Please don't go check, it's not safe to look directly at the Sun with your unprotected eyes.

From our perspective it does look a little yellow, especially after sunrise or shortly before sunset,

But don't be fooled.

If you could travel into space and look at the Sun without going blind, you'd find that it's actually white, and not yellow.

Using a prism, you can see how sunlight can be broken up into the spectrum of its colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. When you mix all those colors together, you get white.

Here's the strange part.

If look at all the photons coming in, our star is actually sending the most photons in the green portion of the spectrum,

Our Sun appears yellow to us because of the atmosphere.

Photons in the higher end of the spectrum - blue, indigo and violet - are more likely to be scattered away, while the lower end of the spectrum - red, orange and yellow - are less easily scattered.

When the Sun is close to the horizon, you're seeing it distorted by more of the Earth's atmosphere, scattering away the bluer photons and making it appear red.

When there's smoke and pollution in the air, it enhances the effect and it will look even redder.

If the Sun is high in the sky, where it has the least amount of atmospheric interference, it will appear more blue.

We're so familiar with the Sun being yellowish-orange, that astronomers will artificially change the color of their images to look more yellowy.

But really, the Sun looks like a pure white ball - especially when you're out in space.

Interestingly, the color of the Sun is very important to astronomers. They use a technique called spectroscopy to stretch out the spectrum of light coming from a star. Dark lines in this spectrum tell you exactly what it's made of.

You can see which stars have high amounts of metals, or which are mostly hydrogen and helium, leftover from the Big Bang.

This color also tells you the temperature of the star. Cooler stars are actually redder. Betelgeuse is only 3500 Kelvin. Hotter stars, like Rigel, can get above 10000 Kelvin, and they look blue.

Our own Sun has a temperature of almost 5800 Kelvin, and when viewed outside of our atmosphere, appears white. in colour.

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Ask anyone, "what color is the Sun"? and they'll tell you the obvious answer: it's yellow. But is it really? Please don't go check, it's not safe to look directly at the Sun with your unprotected eyes. From our perspective it does look a little yellow, especially after sunrise or shortly before sunset, But don't ...

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Popescu Doina Maria, Romania.The sun color is white. The sun emit radiation of diverse  frecvense and this reflected on clouds  , wather, passing through the terrestrial atmosphere, and that's  why the raise color are appearance are  yellow, or red or purple, or orange, etc

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Popescu Doina Maria, Romania.The sun color is white. The sun emit radiation of diverse  frecvense and this reflected on clouds  , wather, passing through the terrestrial atmosphere, and that's  why the raise color are appearance are  yellow, or red or purple, or orange, etc

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No, it isn't! Everyone thinks the Sun is yellow, but it is actually white because the rays it sends are white. But before these rays come to us, this light passes through the terrestrial atmosphere that tends to disperse the radiation in the wavelengths of blue and purple, so the wavelengths that pass are yellow.

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The sun is white. The white color of the sun stems from the fact that it emits radiation over a wide range of frequencies. In the visible range, its white color comes from the mixture of the other colors. And this can be seen "in reverse", that is, the white light of the Sun can be separated into the various other colors that make it up - that is how the rainbow appears.

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I believe that the sun, unlike to what most of pupils and most of us actually paint, is not yellow but white. This is because of the fact that white contains all colors and human eye can catch some of them.

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The real color of the sun is white. The reason that the Sun looks yellow to us is because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters higher wavelength colors, like red, orange and yellow less easily. Hence, these wavelengths are what we see, which is why the Sun appears yellow.

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What is the true colour of the Sun? (Fact Friday)

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We're trying out a new format so please tell us what you think! What is the true colour of the Sun? Find out in this Ultimate Fact video!

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The Sun is white, though due to our atmosphere it appears to be yellow, orange or red.
Some nice activities here:

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All colours together give the white (the light)

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Tutorial paso a paso de cómo crear el Disco de Newton con materiales que puedes encontrar fácilmente. Esto con el fin de que se demuestre que la luz blanca está formada por los siete colores del arco iris.

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The Sun is white. It looks yellow / orange because  because the light that arrives at us has to descend through the atmosphere, where it is scattered / filtered.

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It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red. However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white.
When we see the Sun at sunrise or sunset, when it is low in the sky, it may appear yellow, orange, or red. But that is only because its short-wavelength colors (green, blue, violet) are scattered out by the Earth's atmosphere, much like small waves are dispersed by big rocks along the shore. Hence only the reds, yellows, and oranges get through the thick atmosphere to our eyes.
All forms of light and energy are part of the same phenomena: the electromagnetic spectrum. Our eyes can detect only a small amount of this energy, that portion we call "visible light."
Sometimes the display color of the Sun is culturally determined. If a kindergartener in the USA colors a picture of the Sun, they will usually make it yellow. However, a kindergartener in Japan would normally color it red!
In spite of these "artistic licenses", the Sun really is white!
(from: What Color is the Sun?

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html)

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This video is very interesting and gives an answer.

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Think about the color of the sun. You thought "yellow" right? Well the physics of light is playing a little trick on you. It all depends on where you are. Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/businessinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/businessinsider/ TUMBLR: http://businessinsider.tumblr.com/

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Very interesting question . really what is color of Sun?

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We can see the un in different colors. Depends on the tools used for it.

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Obviously the Sun is not always yellow, just because it depends on then height in the sky, the season and other things such as solar radiations.

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Thinking of Picasso: many painters usually paint the Sun like a yellow spot. Yet, not any yellow  spot is the Sun. Yes, children paint the Sun like a big orange/yellow circle with happy eyes and a smile. Going back to Picasso: "All the children are artists. The problem is how to remain artists once they grow". My students accept the fact the Sun is white after I show them that white means the colors of the rainbow. For a while I had in my classrooms rainbow  like Suns. I had the same artistic problem with the human faces from the Moon. Kids...

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When we see the sun from space or high in the sky it is white. We see the sun yellow, orange or red, when it is low in the sky. It depends on the atmospheric scattering . The atmospheric scattering is also responsible that we don't see all colours. Blue is more scattered and so we see the complementary colour white.

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Image courtesy NASA | It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red. However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white. This is easy to see in pictures taken from space.
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html

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http://askanastronomer.org/stars/faq/2015/11/06/is-the-sun-yellow-or-white/

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http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html

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The Sun is not really yellow. We see yellow our Sun due to an optical illusion: the Earth's atmosphere makes the light to scatter.

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''The Sun emits a lot of energy in the visible range. In wavelength scale it is from 390 nm to 700 nm, and when you translate it to colors, you get all colors from violet to red, just as we see them in the rainbow. When you mix all those colors together you get white, and that is why white is the true color of the Sun.
But seen from the Earth, the Sun can have many colors: from whitish-yellowish when it is high above the horizon, to red when it sets or rises. But you are right - most people see it as yellow, because the shortest wavelengths (that we see as different shades of blue) are being scattered by the Earth’s atmosphere, coloring the sky blue. And when our eyes combine all those rainbow colors, except the blue ones, the Sun’s color our eyes see is yellowish''.  http://askanastronomer.org

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And this is the 2016 photo with mercury.

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That depends on the filter that we use to observe it through the telescope. However, in the texts we find that the sun is a yellow star. I for example reread this in 2012 transit of venus and in 2016 the transit of mercury, and were two colors that arooked me.

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Perhaps it is because whenever we dare to look at the sun directly, it must be low on the horizon and appear yellow, orange or red

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The sun is not yellow, so we see it

11. Oct, 2012 Written by Manuel Cheta

Whoever you ask will tell you that the Sun is yellow-orange. On TehnoCultura.ro, where I write about technology and science, among other things, I like to publish articles that will light our minds a little.

The sun is NOT yellow. It is a star in the stage of the main sequence of the yellow dwarf class (G2V spectral class), dwarfs that may have colors from yellow (lower brightness) to white (higher brightness). It emits "white" light, because all colors are emitted in the same proportion. If you were in space, you would see it as a white bullet in the sky.

For another 5.5 billion years we will enjoy its white light, after which it will turn orange when it becomes a red giant.

However, why do we see it yellow on Earth? The answer is simple: the atmosphere spreads blue light through the air molecules (where we see the blue sky) and the rest of the colors manage to reach our eyes in the form of yellow-orange color.

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Sometimes the Sun is red or orange. The sun is all these colours mixed togheter and to our eyes it appears white.

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It depends on the definition of "color" :) All stars emit all kind of radiation, but we can see "colored" stars. How we see the sun is a problem of how radiation crosses our atmosphere and how our detector (eye) get different wavelength.

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It is not yellow, but perhaps they draw it yellow because when we see the Sun from Earth (mostly at sunrise/sunset, because another hour will hurt more our eyes) we look it yellowish-orangish.

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The Sun is white.

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No, the sun is white.

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The sun is white.

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It gets even more complicated when you examine by a scientific point of view what yellow and the colour really is.

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It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red. However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white. This is easy to see in pictures taken from space.
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html

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The sun is a star and to explain its color it is necessary to explain the concept of wavelengths that the telescope, unlike the human eye, can record, so that they are then converted from the sdo into colored images so as to render them visible

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EVERYONE SUNSET DIFFERENT COLOR