Sigh. So, a common misconception in astronomy education, is that the Sun itself is yellow. It's common even among astronomy graduate students at, err, a first

Sigh. So, a common misconception in astronomy education, is that the Sun itself is yellow. It's common even among astronomy graduate students at, err, a first-tier institution for both astronomy research, and astronomy education research. Indeed, you can roughly guess who has/hasn't done the 'common misconceptions in astronomy education' class by asking them "[A five-year old asks...] What color is the Sun?" So it's utterly without surprise, but a sad commentary on the state of science education, that I see... (via image and video search) ABCs of Space and 8 Little Planets have yellow or orange Suns. Pop-up Peekaboo! Space has no Sun, but yellow stars. I had hope for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: I Know Exactly What You Are which used white stars when explaining twinkling... before it explicitly said the Sun was "yellow", next to something the same-ish orange color as the "Red" dwarf a few pages back, and one page before a yellow Sun. Moon’s First Friends, and Planet Hunting, and... ah well, I'll stop there. The handling of scale is... never mind. To be fair to astronomy graduate students, among first-tier non-astronomy physical-sciences graduate students, a common response is some variant of "it doesn't have a color; it's lots of different colors; it's rainbow colored" - misunderstanding color, rather than a classification scheme. If some country ever aligns its science education content incentives with the creation of robust understanding... it's kind of hard to imagine where they might end up. But that's not us.