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What color is the Sun?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Evolution of UV Light

If you're in outer space and you look at the sun, you do not see it as green. That's just because it does not generally have an evolutionary benefit for us to do so. So that's why certain animals, especially invertebrates and pollinators, can often see UV light is because it is something that they've evolved to see.

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