Two answers: First: White! Second: All colors!
Since this week is dedicated to stars (much like the previous), I’m definitely going to write a post about our own star. But let’s clear the air about the Sun’s color first.
Our star has all the colors mixed together so it appears white to our eyes (from space, without the atmospheric medium). The Sun emits all sorts of colors with different wavelengths. When the light hits our atmosphere, the blue waves (shorter than the yellow, orange or red waves) disperse in the upper layers, therefore our sky appears to be blue and the Sun is red, yellow or orange, depending of the time of day we observe it.
Remember though that nothing is ever simple in astronomy and sometimes astronomers seem eager to mess things up for our understanding! That is precisely why they have catalogued our Sun as a G-type Main Sequence star, in other words a Yellow Dwarf! And no, our Sun is not in fact yellow, but white! – Roman Alexander
(The question was originally asked by Flordelyn Tulang Joson from The Philippines)

Photo credits to Mehmet Ergün. He took the photo on 07.05.2018, using the following equipment:
Lunt LS80 B1800 Double Stack (Bresser GmbH), Fornax LighTrack II Mount (Fornax Mount)
QHY5III174 Cam (QHYCCD).


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