what colour is the sun?? – Nitrogen Zone

Question: what colour is the sun??

Asked by lucyja to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Donna MacCallum answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  I think that it is orange – but appears more yellow here on Earth
- Joanna Buckley answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  Hiya Lucyja 🙂
  
  The sun is spinning swirling mass of fire. It’s sort of orangey yellow red and the surface is 5500 degrees Celsius 🙂
- Mark Lancaster answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  It’s a pinkish-yellow – the sun actually emits light of quite a broad set of wavelengths but there is a simple law – Wien’s law that relates temperature to colour
  
  See here: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/Tspectrum.html
- Tim Craggs answered on 24 Jun 2010:
  
  The sun emits white light, but it looks yellow to us when we see it high in the sky because the blue light is scattered by the atmosphere (which is why the sky looks blue).
  
  When the sun is low in the sky, it looks red. This is because the light from the sun has had to travel through more atmosphere to get to us, so more of the blue light has been scattered, leaving the sun looking red.
  
  Cool eh!

Question: what colour is the sun??