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    Default Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    I remember coloring in kindergarten and when it was time to draw the sun, all the kids would grab the yellow crayons to draw the sun and I would stand there with a puzzled look on my face. The sun was clearly orange to me. The real strange kid in class always picked red to draw the sun, but he was weird so we didn't think much of it. Either that, or he was color blind.


    So is the sun yellow or is it orange??

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    It's a bright intense yellow at mid day, turns orange as it sets, no?

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Just wanted to clear up what I said, it doesn't literally turn orange when it sets, that's only from our point of view.

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chick Stern View Post
    It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.
    F*ck you man.

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chewing View Post
    F*ck you man.
    Facts are hard

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    One of the interesting things about matter and the universe is this: No matter what the material an object or different objects are made of, they will glow exactly at the same color depending on their temperature. So, because of the sun's specific temperature, it has a specific color. A hotter star would be even whiter than the sun which is comparatively yellow.

    Edit: Hotter stars actually get more blue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rolando View Post

    Edit: Hotter stars actually get more blue.
    This m'fer right here.


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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chick Stern View Post
    It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.
    Exactly what I came here to post. Color of the sun that we see is determined by our atmosphere. Sun sends white light so it includes all wavelengths. Earth acts like a prism where it deflects+absorbs the large wavelengths like blue. Yellow, on the other hand, is a very short wavelength that doesn't get absorbed or reflected so that's the color that reaches our eyes - thus yellow sun when not directly overhead but located at a regular daytime angle. It's like kind of blueish when directly overhead due to atmosphere at its' thinnest. It's red at sunrise/sunset because that's the angle the atmosphere is at its' thickest.

    On Mars, it would be blue because of thin atmosphere not absorbing/deflecting very much of the light wavelengths (might actually be kind of whiteish if sun is directly overhead on Mars). You would only see pure white with zero atmosphere like I guess on an asteroid/Pluto or if directly flying in space.

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chick Stern View Post
    It is classified as a yellow dwarf, but the reality is that it is white.
    10 4

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Just came to say I believe it's when when you're free from the atmosphere. At least to our eyes.

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Yellow or Orange! It ain't that hard!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chewing View Post
    This m'fer right here.

    Bwahahahahaha!

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Yall blind? The shit is orange

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    Default Re: Is the Sun Yellow or Orange?

    Isn't this lovely?


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