Why the color of sun is yellowish orange?
Though humans perceive the sun as yellow when they look directly at it, it is actually white. The sun is made up of a collection of gases, such as helium, hydrogen and other elements, and is so hot that it emits a white light. If you were to look at the sun in outer space rather than through Earth’s atmosphere, the sun would appear to be whitish in color rather than golden. This is because the appearance of the sun’s rays is distorted as they pass through the Earth’s atmosphere. Sun is made up of gases mainly like hydrogen, helium and small amount of other elements like sulphur, magnesium, carbon, neon, iron, oxygen, nickel, chromium and calcium. Temperature on the surface of sun is approximately 5780K giving the sun white color but it often appears yellow to us when we look at the sun from the earth because of the atmospheric scattering of light. When white light coming from the sun towards the earth passes through the atmosphere of the earth it scatters the blue light (which is respo
