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White is quite a flexible term. The suns (color) temperature is 5778K.

• Y_Y 3y ago
  That's a weirdly precise measurement of the temperature of sunlight. Colour temperature isn't really a precise way of measuring colour since not even a body like the sun really acts as a black body emitter. All that said, colour temperatures around six thousand kelvins are certainly describable as white and not as yellow.
  • marcosdumay 3y ago
    The Sun is an almost perfect black body emitter. Outside of our atmosphere, it's perfectly so, and the atmospheric distortion is imperceptible. Any reasonable representation of its color would classify the Sun as white, except when comparing it to other stars, where the small differences matter a lot.
    • Y_Y 3y ago
      Maybe you are more forgiving than I am, but the spectrum of the sun even measured from nearby in space is distinctly different to a Planck spectrum[0]. [0] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo300/node/683 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo300/node/683