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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 22:31:27 2019 No.11137891 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11137897

Why is the sun and stars in general depicted as being yellow or even red when all main sequence stars are barely more than tinted white?

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 22:33:13 No.11137897 Report

Quoted By: >>11137909

>>11137891
Cavemen saw what they saw, no question- To them, stars appeared yellow-like to their human eyes because of the very dark-black background of the sky. Tradition sticks around

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 22:38:39 No.11137909 Report

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>>11137897
The majority of stars in the night sky are pale white, and apart from a few like Betelgeuse, that's what they appear like in my eye.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2019 00:07:21 No.11138151 Report

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Why are there no green stars?

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2019 13:58:02 No.11139387 Report

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>>11138151
The Sun is spectrally greenish, but our brain has learnt to use this as a reference white.

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