Sunlight is yellowish in atmosphere since some blue's been scattered by the atmosphere[1], but it's white in space.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
I don't think that's right. Sunlight is white in the atmosphere too. Scattering causes the sun, not the light, to look yellow, and so sunlight is thought of as yellow.
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I don't think that's right. Sunlight is white in the atmosphere too. Scattering causes the sun, not the light, to look yellow, and so sunlight is thought of as yellow.