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Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The sun is a G-class star. It’s yellow or yellow-white by classification. The order from blue to red is OBAFGKM, with white being an A leaning towards an F. The perceived earthbound color of Sol skews further yellow because of the aforentioned blue-scattering.

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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Good point, thanks for the addition/correction. I didn’t know A existed, you learn something new everyday :)

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Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You just gave me elite dangerous PTSD flask backs…

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Well… That’s the particular reason I’m keyed into it. I haven’t actually ventured far enough to actually need the KGBFOAM mnemonic. However, I am currently docked on the Distant Worlds 3 carrier. DW3 just launched on the 18th. I believe it’s near Colonia right now, at the planet of death, where the land able planet is in a jet cone.
  
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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Where the peak is depends on how you measure it. Wavelength or frequency gives different curves. If measures as a perfect blackbody the peak is green (which is connected to why chlorophyll took off, even though it's less efficient for energy capture). But we get all visible light to some degree, so its color is white. Classification has a different meaning than what it looks like.

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