Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 03:39:40 -0500 Message-ID: <5612374A.44@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 01:39:38 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astonomy Subject: Re: green stars References: <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-LNLWkwlq70LSbQM66erqdPV5/qpdJPXbE5NN9s84OgscJ9JkWVuqVWU12EVy5o/Avq2I5owTP78ZF9i!TYkYhl7iXo+iUVf2fTylc0lkK1zswqIeVEzigAUndSOBpAtB3qwVIZd8jeOaVTi5AYJy9sfjgJ9p!/Pxu/g== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1839 X-Received-Bytes: 1951 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2530322955 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:424190 sci.physics:524619 sci.physics.relativity:366203 Sam Wormley wrote: > > On 10/3/15 4:37 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: > > The Sun looks white in space, from outside the atmosphere, but that's > > primarily because it's so close to us, all colours look saturated in our > > vision. > > No--The Sun looks almost white to us because our eyes have evolved > with green, blue and red sensors. Even though there is a peak in the > yellow green range, there is still plenty of red and blue making > white. plenty of red and blue does not make white. The reason why they see red shifts is because red is the weakest color...it's the first to go.