6/13/2023 0 Comments Coloree english![]() “Moreover, the human eye, or maybe more properly the optic nerves, detects light in a way that ‘smooths’ out changes in brightness,” Lazio said. The sun emits many different wavelengths, or colors, across the entire spectrum in colors we can see and more that the naked eye can’t-in fact, it most strongly emits a greenish color-but when these colors come together, what we see is white, she said. In her introductory astronomy class, Weber said, she refers to the sun as a “yellow dwarf,” because it’s a G-type spectral class star, which is often referred to as such. ![]() When I was a kid, all manners of TV shows or toys or school activities depicted the sun as yellow.” (I’m no child development expert but I assume we also give children yellow crayons to draw the sun because a white crayon on white paper won't do anything.) The idea of the 'yellow sun' is, in part, definitely an effect of nostalgia and media. “In this situation, I think it is just people misremembering events or what they observed, especially when in comparison to our younger selves. Then we get the trend of people thinking something must be true because the internet said so,” she said. “They can be dangerous, because other people latch on to these ideas and are like 'Oh yeah.I noticed that too', without consulting the science. Maria Weber, Assistant Professor of Physics and Planetarium Director at Delta State University, told me that she sees claims like this circulating around the internet all the time. “Bottom line up front: One should *never* look directly at the sun without adequate eye protection,” Joseph Lazio, Interplanetary Network Directorate Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, said in an email. Solar scientists are typically busy doing science and don’t have time to ponder the habits of people staring at the sun, but they did have some thoughts on the yellow sun theory that’s gained new attention this week. ![]() “They can be dangerous, because other people latch on to these ideas and are like 'Oh yeah…I noticed that too', without consulting the science.” ![]()
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