Most pictures of the Sun depict it as a yellow heavenly body. The primary reason why the Sun appears yellow is the fact that it is made up of gases such as hydrogen and helium along with other elements like sulfur, magnesium, carbon, neon, iron, oxygen, nickel, chromium and calcium. The interaction of these elements caused by the nuclear fusion and collision of their ions makes the surface of the Sun reach temperatures to about 10 000 Fahrenheit. The very hot temperature of its different layers makes the Sun to have white color. The scattering of light particles in the earth’s atmosphere when the Sun is gazed from earth gives it yellow color.
