Much of the sun’s light is green. Why does it look yellow?

Much of the sun’s light is green. Why does it look yellow?

You’ve likely seen NASA images of the sun that look like this. And if you peek at it in the sky, it can appear from white to red, depending on the time of day and cloud cover. Despite emitting a lot of green light, the sun never looks green to us.NASA/Goddard/SDO It’s a bright, beautiful day, with the lovely green sun shining overhead. Wait, you might say — green? We typically think of the sun as yellow or orange. Yet if we measured all the ligh…