The color of the sun reveals a range of information about our star including the stages of its life and how it interacts with the atmosphere of Earth.

Here’s one for you: What color is the sun? Most people, I’d wager, would say yellow. You probably pictured it as yellow in your head when you thought of it just now.

In its most physical sense, color is what people see when a wavelength enters the eye. There, specialized cells send signals to the brain, which translates the waves into the colors we see.