What is the color of the sun? The sun's color is actually white, and here's why elements on Earth alter it's color.

Earth's atmosphere filters out certain colors of the spectrum, too, changing the color in which the Sun appears. It looks most whiteish during high noon, when the Sun is high in the sky, shining ...

The Sun's visible colors are revealed by passing its light through a prism-like device at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory. The spectrum highlights the Sun's emission of light in various colors ...

If the Sun were a perfect emitter, its peak would be around 500 nanometers. That is in the green portion of the visible spectrum.

When describing the color of the Sun, it’s understandable to take a page from Coldplay’s handbook and say it’s all yellow. But, as it turns out, the Sun is not all yellow, but rather ...

The sun is obviously the brightest object in our sky. The moon is second, because it reflects the light of the sun. If you pass sunlight through a prism, it will stretch into a spectrum of colors ...

The True Color of the Sun The spectrum of the Sun peaks in the green region of the visible spectrum, but since it radiates almost equal amounts of all visible wavelengths, the net effect is white ...