minus-squarestevep@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•How to argue reasonablylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoMind you, regarding the sun being green, it’s worth noting this observation from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien’s_displacement_law The effective temperature of the Sun is 5778 Kelvin. Using Wien’s law, one finds a peak emission per nanometer (of wavelength) at a wavelength of about 500 nm, in the green portion of the spectrum near the peak sensitivity of the human eye. linkfedilink
Mind you, regarding the sun being green, it’s worth noting this observation from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien’s_displacement_law
The effective temperature of the Sun is 5778 Kelvin. Using Wien’s law, one finds a peak emission per nanometer (of wavelength) at a wavelength of about 500 nm, in the green portion of the spectrum near the peak sensitivity of the human eye.