What is the colour of the Sun? It appears white outside of the earth, but I have seen pictures where it looks orange

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    When you ask someone the colour of our sun, most of the people will say it's actually white, and not yellow.Using a prism, you can see how sunlight can be broken up into the spectrum of it's colors, Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.When you mix all those colors together, you get white.

Our sun appears yellow to us because of the atmosphere

Ask anyone, “what color is the Sun”? and they’ll tell you the obvious answer: it’s yellow.

But is it really?

Please don’t go check, it’s not safe to look directly at the Sun with your unprotected eyes.

    From our perspective it does look a little yellow, especially after sunrise or shortly before sunset,

But don’t be fooled.

If you could travel into space and look at the Sun without going blind, you’d find that it’s actually white, and not yellow.

Here’s the strange part.

If look at all the photons coming in, our star is actually sending the most photos in the green portion of the spectrum,

Our Sun appears yellow to us because of the atmosphere.

    But really, the Sun looks like a pure white ball – especially when you’re out in space.

Interestingly, the color of the Sun is very important to astronomers. They use a technique called spectroscopy to stretch out the spectrum of light coming from a star. Dark lines in this spectrum tell you exactly what it’s made of.

   You can see which stars have high amounts of metals, or which are mostly hydrogen and helium, leftover from the Big Bang.This color also tells you the temperature of the star. Cooler stars are actually redder. Betelgeuse is only 3500 Kelvin. Hotter stars, like Rigel, can get above 10000 Kelvin, and they look blue.Our own Sun has a temperature of almost 5800 Kelvin, and when viewed outside of our atmosphere, appears white in colour.