Above are the visible colors of the sun as mapped by the McMath-Pierce Observatory — in short, a representation of the complete palette of visible light we have available on Earth. The brightest region is yellow-green, and the dark patches are blocked by gas at or above the surface of the sun.
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Uh… wow.
I don’t like your rainbow, it has no pink! It is sexist and NSF should deny it funding if you ignore teh pink!
fascinating image. some comments: be suspicious of phrases that suggest only one (RGB-standard trichromat) pattern of color perception in humans…
i am male, and read often that i am a trichromat at best. this has led to much confusion.
when i actually look at light that has passed through a prism aimed at presumably the same star as represented here, i have always found many more bright, distinct color bands than these.
more: to these eyes, all distinct colors have similar widths & brilliance-intensities…if i were to construct a similarly-intended image, more bright colors would fill more of the total space and in equal amounts, with even blending betwixt them. in order of long-short wavelengths, the following colors appear distinctly:
Bruno
Red
Orange
Yellow
Chartreuse
Green
Cyan
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Magenta
Pink
Et Cetera (off the page)
you could perhaps get a team of artists, especially women, to do various renderings of this…there are no ‘correct’ colors, just varying perceptions of them…
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