The sun doesn't emit as much purple light as blue, and our eyes aren't as sensitive to purple, so the sky doesn't look violet, even though that color scatters even more than blue. The Sun would have to emit only green light for our eyes to perceive it as green. This means the actual colour of the Sun is white.
So, why does it generally look yellow? This is because the Earth's atmosphere scatters blue light more efficiently than red light. Blue stars, which are much hotter than the Sun, have higher surface temperatures and emit a more significant portion of their light in the blue and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum. On the other hand, cooler stars, like red dwarfs, emit more red and infrared light.
The color of the sun reveals a range of information about our star including the stages of its life and how it interacts with the atmosphere of Earth. Learn what color the Sun is and why it appears different colors from Space, the Earth, and in photographs. Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset.
What color is it really? What Color Is The Sun? The sun's color is dependent on the sun's surface temperature, Earth's atmosphere, and the human eye The sun's light peaks in visible light around 500-nanometers, which translates to blue-green Earth's atmosphere causes the sun to appear yellow to our eyes When we look at the sun, either with protective equipment or with solar observatories, it appears yellow. The shorter wavelengths that make up the colours green, blue and violet get scattered more and give us the blue sky. The remaining yellow, orange and red wavelengths tend to travel straight through without getting scattered as much.
The more atmosphere sunlight passes through, the more red it appears. That's why we have red sunsets. Introduction Participants use scientific practices1 to investigate answers to simple questions such as what color is the Sun, why is the sky blue, what causes orange sunsets, and why is the ocean blue.
It is as important for them to experience the process as to get the "right" answer. Sunglight is composed of colors from violet to red (abbreviated as VIBGYOR). Violet has the lowest wavelength and red has the highest wavelength.
Combinedly, this forms a white color, which is the net color of the Sun.