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Originally Posted by Alex W.
The sun emits white light. Without an atmosphere, all this would reach our eyes, and it would look white. But some of the blue photons are scattered away (giving the sky its colour) so the sunlight isn't as blue as it originally was- so it's yellow.
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[-X Someone hasn't read the BA's book. He addresses this problem and when you do the math, it turns out that not nearly enough blue light is scattered out of sunlight to make the Sun look yellow.
Also, according to George's site the Sun's real colour is
not white: it's pink! (Actually I would call it
salmon, or maybe
apricot.)
However, that site does concede (near the bottom of the page) that there is a subjective element in colour, so that what's pure white to one person might appear off-white to another.