if the sun produces white light that then refracts into other colors when it enters our atmosphere, why does it appear yellow in photographs from space?

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In: Physics

Answer 1

The Sun *emits* white light, which is actually a composite of all of the visible frequencies of light. (A prism shows you the visible frequencies of white light.) The distribution of solar frequencies is uneven, the most intense frequency is in the yellow-green part of the spectrum. All of the visible frequencies mixed together produce white.