Why isn t the sun green?
If it s output peaks in green
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Julien say: I thought the peak of the Planck law was on the yellow, but maybe you're right: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
Then, I guess the shift from green to yellow could probably be an effect of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere: the same effect that makes the sun red at sunset, but not as strong.
Another possibility could be that it is an effect of the strong asymmetry of the Sun's power spectrum distribution: on the red side there is a long tail so that actually I think most of the energy of the Sun is in the infrared. This is more visible here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
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Clive say: Because it PEAKS in green. It radiates at all other frequencies as well and they mix to make white.
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Gabe say: Because it also gives off immense amounts of everything else at the same time!!!
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Colleen say: The sun is so many light rays directly to us, so many that they all add together to become white.
High frequency light like blue and purple is more likely to be scattered, and that's why the sun appears to be made of warm colors at the edges (low frequency light), and also plays into sunsets.
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gink say: Why is my **** brown
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Cowboy say: Human perception is an imperfect thing....if you want to see the true splendor of reality, You'll have to use the visual prowess of birds - they see colors we can't even dream about. Our lineage lost all color vision and only regained it through chance mutation - be happy we see as good as we can.
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aladdinwa say: Yes, it peaks in Green, but Green does not dominate the other colors. The Sun's overall color is still a combination of many colors.
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goring say: It was Goethe that indicated that green does not really exist. When we look at the Sun Its a bright white.
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Ronald 7 say: It is true that the Sun's output is mostly in the Green part of the Spectrum
But our Eyes' perception of it is a Yellowy White
Whereas everything we would see would appear Black
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quantumclaustrophobe say: While the peak output is in the green, it's overall output is all across the visible light range, and very bright - in space, the sun appears quite white... On Earth, due to our atmospheric effects, it appears yellow, due to some of it's light being absorbed.
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busterwasmycat say: the blue filter effect.
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Julien say: I thought the peak of the Planck law was on the yellow, but maybe you're right: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
Then, I guess the shift from green to yellow could probably be an effect of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere: the same effect that makes the sun red at sunset, but not as strong.
Another possibility could be that it is an effect of the strong asymmetry of the Sun's power spectrum distribution: on the red side there is a long tail so that actually I think most of the energy of the Sun is in the infrared. This is more visible here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
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say: I remember a Yahoo Blog a few years ago asserting that the sun was green. Sorry, I aint buying it.
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PhotonX say: Find a good surface magnifier, 25x is fine--they can be found for around $10--and take a good close look at a white patch on your monitor. You'll see red, blue, green, and black, but not a bit of white--white light doesn't exist. Mixed colors don't work the way you think they do.
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Acetek say: The Sun has a slight green ting to it but is overwhelmed by the yellow/white of its main color
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Atheist Dude say: Becuase the colur of new starts yellow the the go orange and then red like Krypton's sun.
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CarolOklaNola say: The Sun is white because all the visible colors mixed together. So the Suns radiation is maximum in the green yellow part of the visible spectrum there us NOT a sharp transition from green to yellow. What color do you get when you mix yellow and green light together Cerise.
Are talking about a red green blue color scale, a yellow, cyan magenta, scale or an intensity, hue saturation color scale?
2^8, 2^16, or 2^64 bit color scales. I'd love to discuss cold theory in detail, but YA is NOT the place for that kind of a discussion. Go to a physics stack exchange.
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