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 sun in space is a green color. Green is a peak wavelength color and acts like white in the sense we know it on earth – scatters to all color wavelengths.
The sun looks yellow / orange / red on earth depending on a couple factors such as pollution and visibility as well as the angle the sun is coming into view.
The reason it’s orange and browner at sunset is because the angle the light hits the earth scatters all the lighter wavelengths. And when it’s high in the sky is as close to whiteish yellow as we could fathom because the earth is getting as much of the wavelengths the sun can give without being massively scattered thru the ozone.
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