THE COLOR OF THE SUN.
Most people if they were asked to state the color of the sua Would say that it was orange, and they wbuld as confidently assert that the color of the atmosphere was blue. They would be wrong, for recent researches and investigations point to the conclusion that the real color of the sun is blue, while that of the atmosphere surrounding the earth is orange. Commonly the earth’s atmosphere appears so transparent and translucent that it is hard to realise the fact that it hits as much effect on the Eght and heat coming from the sun as if it were a roof of thick glass. But the atmosphere is very far from being as colorless as it seems to be, and the best way of discovering its true tint is not to gaze immediately overhead, but to look away towards the horizon. so doing the atmosphere will be seen, as it were, in bulk, for overhead there is only a small accumulation of it compared with the many miles of thickness through which the vision travels when the eye looks towards the horizon.—‘Knowledge.’
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Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 8
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189THE COLOR OF THE SUN. Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 8
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