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THE UNIVERSE
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orange
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yellow
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yellow white
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yellow orange
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red. However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white. This is easy to see in pictures taken from space.
Detailed explanation-2: -So, why does it generally look yellow? This is because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue light more efficiently than red light. This slight deficit in blue light means the eye perceives the colour of the Sun as yellow.
Detailed explanation-3: -The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination “white".
Detailed explanation-4: -If we were above the atmosphere, say on the International Space Station and looked at the sun (through our filtered visor), the sun would appear white! Why? Because though the sun emits strongest in the green part of the spectrum, it also emits strongly in all the visible colors – red through blue (400nm to 600nm).