Over the course of a lifetime perceptions can change, starting from the taste of food (once considered tastier) to the color of the Sun. This is because people on the web seem to believe that the Sun has changed color in the last decadesas it is possible to read on Twitter lately.
“I’m just telling a 20-year-old that the sun was yellow when I was a kid and he laughs“, writes an Internet user on the social network owned by Elon Musk. “The last time I saw a yellow sun was on the Teletubbies. Here it is right now: white and oddly shaped.“
So there are those who say that our star was yellow in the past, while today it has become white. Incredibly the idea wasn’t born now and has been the subject of conspiracy theories for years. “I’m old enough to tell you, it was yellow. And anyone my age will tell you that the Sun was definitely yellow“, says another user.
So what’s the answer? As NASA astronaut Scott Kelly also said when speaking on the matter, the light of our star is whitebut when it hits our atmosphere our eyes perceive it as yellow.
The more atmosphere the light has to pass through, the more yellow or red the Sun appears (as in the case of sunrise or sunset). Conversely, when our star is overhead it will appear whiter, as the blue light has less atmosphere to scatter to reach your eyes.
Some think that the celestial body was once yellow a cause of nostalgia, as you are more likely to remember a beautiful sunset rather than a normal day. By the way, what is the largest number of sunsets that can be seen on our planet?
