Continuing from the prior article...

“The Sun Ain’t Yeller”, cries the heliochromologist.  Undaunted by tradition, dogma, or tens of thousands of erroneous magazine and textbook images of our Sun, heliochromology, a colorful heterodox, is winning the day because the Sun is what it is, color and all, regardless of other’s puerile incognizance.  The answer is not a vague, subjective one, but an objective one, as sure as red apples are red.  Heliochromology is our path to enlightenment that will bring resolve to this color conundrum -- a subtle polemic that has been dormant to all of astronomy for hundreds, nay thousands, nay nay, tens of thousands of years, perhaps since mankind first discovered the Sun and its daily color metamorphosis.  We know not who the sagacious sapien may have been who indubitably made the first astronomical discovery of all time – the Sun.

We learned from the prior blog that the Sun is much too bright for normal viewing with our sensitive eyes. A white “color” results when we observe objects that are both extremely bright and bright at all or most visible wavelengths. Please allow me to elaborate a little more on this issue.

A large scrap item has fallen from astronomy's cutting table! Although, it is not something essential for our understanding of all that is within spacetime's fabric, nor is it critical to any framework within astronomy, it is, nevertheless, a striking example of how something very big can get amazingly ignored -- the color of the Sun.

This colorful mystery is not a puny one, but a stellar one. [No more conscious puns, promise.] As we all know, stars come in all sizes, but not shapes. They come in many different masses and temperatures. They come in different colors, but only a few colors are allowed. They also come in different brightnesses. Some appear very dim -- indeed, most are beyond our ability to see them -- and others are very bright.