When describing the color of the Sun, it’s understandable to take a page from Coldplay’s handbook and say it’s all yellow. But, as it turns out, the Sun is not all yellow, but rather entirely white.

The color of the sun is actually white, though it may look yellow. If you were to get close enough to the sun, which you can't actually do, you'd be able to see its true color. The light rays from the ...

For more than two centuries, astronomers have treated the Sun’s spectrum as a solved problem, a textbook example of how light reveals the chemistry of the cosmos. Now a fresh look at that familiar ...

During a total solar eclipse, people may see some strange things. Sure, there’s the main event happening in the sky (SN: 1/4/24). But the world may also look a little different on the ground. For a ...

There’s nothing more beautiful than a glorious sunset, especially when different colors are dancing in the skies. But what do those colors mean and why do we see only certain colors? It starts with ...