{"id":590,"date":"2018-03-19T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goshbuzz.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:24:19","slug":"whats-the-original-color-of-the-sun-its-not-yellow-or-red-or-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/whats-the-original-color-of-the-sun-its-not-yellow-or-red-or-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the original color of the Sun? (It&#8217;s not Yellow or Red or Orange!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To your surprise, Sun is neither yellow (as it looks during day) nor orange or red (as it looks during sunrise or sunset). In reality, the sun has different colors like red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo &amp; violet (these are the 7 colors that forms rainbow) &amp; when pictured from space, it looks &#8220;<em><strong>perfectly white<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; due to composition of all of its colors. While viewing from earth, Sun appears yellow since higher wavelength colors of the sun like yellow, red &amp; orange are not easily scattered by earth atmosphere and remain visible to us.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/solar-center.stanford.edu\/SID\/activities\/GreenSun.html\">Stanford Solar Center<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceabc.com\/nature\/universe\/whats-the-colour-of-the-sun-at-noon-in-space.html\">Science ABC<\/a>, Photo Thanks: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mr_williams_photography\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To your surprise, Sun is neither yellow (as it looks during day) nor orange or red (as it looks during sunrise or sunset). In reality, the sun has different colors like red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo &amp; violet (these are the 7 colors that forms rainbow) &amp; when pictured from space, it looks &#8220;perfectly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4,70,5],"tags":[67,167,168,152,169,170,171,172],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Actual-color-of-Sun-is-white-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=500%2C376&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-9w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}