Is The Sun White, Yellow Or Gold?

[k2theablam]

Your kindergarten teacher has failed you my friend.

 

[sneakerhead24]

its a yellow dwarf compared to the other stars

 

[nublee]

Originally Posted by tree4twenty

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[numba1kickrocka]

but wait doesent the op have a condition where he hears and sees things? ummm....yeah the sun is white VERY white!

 

[BANLEU]

Originally Posted by Cobra Kai

Originally Posted by eNPHAN

technically it's white, right? seeing how sunlight, when broken into a prism, contains all the colors of the spectrum....

all the colors of the spectrum together=white

yeah, white is my answer.....

wouldn't that make it some like dingy brownish color if you mixed all of that?

white LIGHT is all the colors of the rainbow, but I believe the actual color white is the absence of colors while black is all the colors put together.

Even with the rainbow explained, the puzzle of color still baffled scientists. The riddle was solved around 1860 by James Clerk Maxwell (pictured on the left), the brilliant Scottish physicist who also gave us the basic equations of electricity, the ones that predicted electromagnetic waves (see Section S-5). Maxwell showed, while still a student, that two kinds of color existed, depending on whether it was perceived by an instrument or by the human eye:

1. "Spectral color," i.e. the colors of the rainbow and their combinations. The amount which each part of the rainbow spectrum contributes to a beam of light can be determined by splitting the beam with a prism.
2. "Perceived color" reported by the human eye to the brain.

An instrument using prisms ("spectrograph") will reveal that the human eye can be fooled: different combinations of rainbow colors may look the same to the eye.

Our eye contains three kinds of light-sensitive cells, each sensing a different band of colors--one band centered in the red, one in the green and one in the blue. Any color which we see--including brown, olive-green and others absent in the rainbow--is an impression our brain conveys as it combines signals from these 3 color bands. Color-blind persons lack some types of eye cells, and their world lacks certain colors, or even (for those having only one kind of cell) any color at all. Color blindness is much more prevalent in men; in women, on the other hand, a rare mutation exists whose eyes have four different kinds of receptor cells. The rest of us can only guess what colors those ladies must be able to see!

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sun4spec.htmhttp://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sun4spec.htm

anyway the sun is white

Since the Sun is alone in space no other light source will trick us in seeing anything other than a white star. Yet there is more evidence for a white Sun.The Sun is a ball of gas and the layer that we see is the photosphere. As we look into the central portion of the Sun's disk we are able to see deeper into its atmosphere. As we peer into deeper regions of the Sun, we are seeing hotter and hotter gases. The Sun's surface temperature is about 6,390K in the central zone. As we look to the limb of the Sun, we see only the very top of the photosphere where the Sun is only 5,000K.
This temperature gradient is part of what is known as the center-to-limb variation (CLV). It is important to us because if the Kitt Peak image is not yellow at the limb, at 5000K, then there is really no hope, once again, of the Sun ever appearing yellow. [In 4 or 5 billion years, that will be a different story.]

http://www.scientificblogging.com/solar_fun_of_the_heliochromologist/the_color_of_the_sun_revelationhttp://www.scientificblog...lor_of_the_sun_revelation

http://www.scientificblogging.com/solar_fun_of_the_heliochromologist/the_color_of_the_sun_part_iihttp://www.scientificblog..._color_of_the_sun_part_ii

 

[seniosoul]

i wonder what the surface of the sun would look like if the fire was out.

 

[eff ecks]

sometimes its red.

 

[youngtriz]

Originally Posted by Cobra Kai

Originally Posted by eNPHAN

technically it's white, right? seeing how sunlight, when broken into a prism, contains all the colors of the spectrum....

all the colors of the spectrum together=white

yeah, white is my answer.....

[color= rgb(204, 0, 255)]wouldn't that make it some like dingy brownish color if you mixed all of that?[/color]

i guess you also played with a playdo and mixed them all up while you were younger

 

[k2theablam]

Not you, eNPHAN. That was my silly attempt to be witty.

Actually, I think tical hit the closest. I think it's all about perception, just like colors are perception. During certain times of the day, the sun mayappear to be red, orange, yellow, or white. That picture of the actual sun up there doesn't show it's real intensity, so it may appear orange and redunder certain cameras that are able to tone down the intensity, but appear white when viewed during the day.

 

[mateen cleaves]

Originally Posted by tree4twenty

 

[kanyewestjayz4life]

Its white. Like Ep said about the spectrum is correct. The incoming solar radiation has the break through our atmosphere and stuff.

 

[wanksta23]

if dirty says its yellow

THEN ITS YELLOW!

 

[frankie calentino]

Originally Posted by MF Doomer

solar flares are yellow, dark spots are black. Overall it's yellow.

They only appear to be black.

 

[dearwinter219]

It's yellow. I'd rather trust thermal logic than visual logic

 

[t i c a l]

Originally Posted by T i c a l

It's white light, just looks yellow because of the rays being bent by gravity and it having to pass through the atmosphere.

**EDIT:

The Sun has a spectral class of G2V. G2 means that it has a surface temperature of approximately 5,780 K (5,500 C) giving it a white color that often, because of atmospheric scattering, appears yellow when seen from the surface of the Earth. This is a subtractive effect, as the preferential scattering of shorter wavelength light removes enough violet and blue light, leaving a range of frequencies that is perceived by the human eye as yellow. It is this scattering of light at the blue end of the spectrum that gives the surrounding sky its color. When the Sun is low in the sky, even more light is scattered so that the Sun appears orange or even red

- Tical.

I'm quoting myself to reaffirm what I said to those still debating this issue.

- Tical.

 

[calgoresback]

All three of those?

 

[bloodsugar]

Stop staring at the sun, its F#*&ing up your eyes.

 

[its stanley]

The sun is white, but it appears to look yellow to us, so you should be seeing a very bright yellow, so bright that you may call it white.

 

[916jordanboy]

glad to see OP has won his bout against crazyness. :

 

[equaztion]

I ain't won nothin' till i see Jesus next to God chillin in his wifebeater and feather-hat sippin on a Pina Colada.

 

[ag 47]

No, it's black at night.

 

[dakingii]

Originally Posted by E S C A P I S T

My Sun is Black.

Why did i know that somebody was gonna say this

 

[soltheman]

Any time I look into the sun, all I see is the colour spectrum being followed up by a big yellowish/whitish dot.

Having eyes that bend light the wrong ways ftl.

 

[cobra kai]

Originally Posted by YoungTriz

Originally Posted by Cobra Kai

Originally Posted by eNPHAN

technically it's white, right? seeing how sunlight, when broken into a prism, contains all the colors of the spectrum....

all the colors of the spectrum together=white

yeah, white is my answer.....

[color= rgb(204, 0, 255)]wouldn't that make it some like dingy brownish color if you mixed all of that?[/color]

i guess you also played with a playdo and mixed them all up while you were younger

 

[jeenewed]

IMO its orange.