The sun is yellow

I always thought that the Sun 🌞 was yellow (even the emoji agrees with me!), because that's how I have seen it in my colouring books, textbooks, etc., and I think many people also believed that the Sun is yellow. I recently got to know that the Sun is actually white, so I thought this would be worth posting.

According to the Stanford Solar Center, "it is a common misconception that the sun is yellow or orange or even red." In reality, "the sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white." The reason we see the sun as yellow or orange most of the time is because those colored wavelengths, which are longer, are the only ones that make it to our eyes. The other short-wavelength colors—green, blue, and violet—become scattered by the atmosphere, which is what makes the sky look blue during the day!