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The Sun is an almost perfectly symmetric yellow dwarf star [spectral class G2V] which is at the center of our Solar System.

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Why is the colour of sunlight yellow?

When the Sun is near the horizon, and its light is passing through ~2000km of atmosphere rather than through only ~20km, then the blueish end of the spectrum is scattered out, and the Sun looks reddish … Images of the Sun, whether by crayon or telescope/camera, are coloured yellow because that's what we expect to see. …
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