What Color is the Sun?

Published: June 25, 2021, 4:17 p.m.

I was recently reading the May/June 2021 issue of \u201cScience and Children\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0In this issue, I read the section \u201cScience 101\u201d written by Matt Bobrowsky.\xa0\xa0Matt wrote an article entitled \u201cWhat Color is the Sun?\u201d

The fact that the Sun is white is why we can see so many different colors in the outdoor world.\xa0\xa0If sunlight were purely green, then everything outside would look green or dark.\xa0\xa0We can see the redness of a cardinal and the blueness of a blue jay because sunlight contains red and blue light.\xa0\xa0The same is true for all the other colors.\xa0\xa0All of these colors combined make the light from the Sun look white.