A popular tweet about the true color of the sun has sparked a debate on Twitter as users question whether our closest star is really white or yellow.. The Claim. On September 12, Twitter account ...

Red Sun: Why is the sky yellow, how long will it last and is this a rare phenomenon? Dust particles from the continent pulled up through a 'vigorous and powerful system' ...

The sun ain’t what it used to be. That’s what a weird contingent of amateur astronomers believes, anyway. The idea has swirled around the internet for years, and this week got another ...

Photons of red, orange and yellow photons reach your eye pretty much directly with little scattering when the sun is overhead, say at midday, and its light doesn't have to travel through much of ...

The sun used to be yellow but turned white, according to conspiracy theorists who blame everything from man-made change to the Mandela Effect. × Skip to main content ...

Yellow, white or maybe even green—the sun’s hue depends on how you see it. Skip to main content. Scientific American. ... so it really does look yellow, orange and even red.

This leaves mainly the orange and red wavelengths for us to see, and makes the sun look orange or red. In a very clean atmosphere, the sun may still have a yellow-orange color even fairly close to ...