Things You Thought You Knew – The Color of the Sun

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What’s the true color of the sun? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss things you thought you knew about the color of the Sun, the sound of weather, and why friction is our friend.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody in the StarTalkiverse. We've got yet another Things You Thought You knew episode.
0:06.4	This time Chuck and I get into the color of the sun, weather acoustics, and friction. Check it out.
0:16.1	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:29.9	Welcome to the explainer zone.
0:32.4	Yes.
0:33.2	The explainer zone.
0:35.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:36.2	Not the Twilight Zone.
0:37.0	Not the Twilight Zone. We're confused at the end. The explainer zone. Well, yeah. Not the Twilight Zone. Not the Twilight Zone.
0:37.8	We're confused at the end. Right. The explainer zone. Well, you come out knowing more than you did when you win. No one. Some stuff. Right. And so I think there's no end to this, just so you know. Good. I will be calling you forever. All right. So I want to talk about the sun, the color of the sun.
0:56.5	Okay.
0:57.3	All right.
0:58.0	Well. be calling you forever. All right. So I want to talk about the sun, the color of the sun.
0:56.5	Okay.
0:57.3	All right.
0:58.0	Well, you know me.
0:59.1	I don't see color.
1:00.2	You don't see color.
1:01.5	Sorry.
1:02.1	We're already done here.
1:05.4	So, so, so, so here's a thing.
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