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Why is the sun orange in appearance?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It's more of a white colour in space, but scattering of the light within our atmosphere gives it more of a yellow colour, or orange when it is closer to sunrise or sunset (more atmosphere to penetrate at these angles)

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