Is it yellow because from Earth it usually looks yellow to us? Or is it white because the sun gives off all wavelengths of light (white light)? Or is it some other color?
In: Planetary Science
The great thing about this question is it really does belong on ELI5 because… **you decided or were told the sun was yellow when you were about 5 years old.** Remember? You had a white piece of paper and a box of crayons. You wanted to draw a picture of a horse in a field on a sunny day.
horse? brown crayon
grass? green crayon
sky? blue, duh.
sun? sun? sun? uhhh.. you didn’t want to just leave an empty white circle on the page. You wanted to DRAW the sun. So what color? Can’t be red — you already knew what the world looks like under red sunlight near sunset. Blue? No, you can see that the sun is different from the sky, and the sky is blue, so the sun must not be. Green just doesn’t seem right either.
Anyway, you already saw your older brother’s drawing. He used yellow. So that’s probably right.
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