The Sun Was Yellow Now It's White - What's Happening?

Some argue the sun has always been white at midday, and that the only reason we drew it as yellow when we were kids was because white sun on white paper doesn’t show well. But we don’t do that with the moon. And when ancient Egyptians painted their tan sandstone they could have used white paint for the sun, as they did for parts of eyes and other things, but yellow and gold were used in ancient Egyptian art to represent the sun.

Almost a century ago when Superman entered the comic books, we learned that his extraordinary powers came from switching from Krypton’s red sun to our yellow sun. No one objected to say the sun is white except for taking on fiery colors near sunrise and sunset due to shining through the atmosphere at a steeper angle with the light passing through more atmospheric diffraction.

By the mid 20th century, astronomers had stellar classification charts and “The Sun’s official color, according to stellar classification, is yellow. This classification is based on the star’s surface temperature, which in the Sun’s case is approximately 5,700 Kelvin. It falls within the G spectral class (specifically G2V), which conventionally describes stars with temperatures between 5,200K and 6,000K as yellow.”

Right after the Superman movie came out, Douglas Adams published “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” in October 1979. It’s opening line: “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”

The sun’s electromagnetic drive is changing – and the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening – and the magnetic poles are racing to new positions – because every 12,000 or so years our solar system passes through a wave in the neutral layer of the galaxy’s magnetic field. As we pass from the positive or negative side of the galactic field (way stronger than the solar or terrestrial fields) we get flipped – like when you put a big magnet near a small one. There is a catastrophic pole shift event due in the 2nd quarter of the 21st century. Probably between 2029 and 2046. Hard to predict exactly. Read POLE SHIFT: Evidence Will Not Be Silenced, or Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, or Fingerprints of the Gods, or Hamlet’s Mill if you’re really interested.