On 15/06/2012 04:14 PM, Warp wrote:

>    The sun is not yellow. It's white.

I had always assumed that the actual sunlight is white, and the Earth's 
atmosphere scatters the blue end of the spectrum more than the red, thus 
resulting in a sky that looks blue and a sun that looks comparatively 
yellow.

Then again, on some evenings, the sky actually appears to show a (very 
unsaturated) rainbow gradient, with a discernible green band...

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