Have you ever thought about how the sun is never really a consistent color? Wong (uc berkeley), alyssa pagan (stsci) Pin On Products It goes on to describe why our sun is white, our sky is blue, and why sunsets are red/orange. What color is the sun nasa . Tethys, mimas, enceladus, and dione. “our perseverance mars rover has taken its first picture of a sunset! The sdo scientists have colored the visible light images orange to help. The solar radiance per wavelength peaks in the green portion of the spectrum when viewed from space. However, the sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white. All images are from nasa’s solar dynamics observatory (sdo). The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination white. If we were above the atmosphere, say on the international space station and looked at the sun (through our filtered visor), the sun would appear white! When all the visible color