Why The Sun is White after emitting mainly Green light?

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Instead of explaining to my daughter that Santa does not exist, I decided to tell her that The Sun is not actually yellow plus a bunch of unnecessary explanations about the emitting spectrums of light and ended up in a circle of questions from which there is no escape 2nd day. I know the complex scientific explanation, but can someone help me explain it to my *almost* 5-year-old daughter?

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That’s not entirely true. The peak emission of the sun is in green light, but it emits the entire spectrum of visible light. They all get mixed into a color that we interpret as white.

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