Today's APOD: All the Colors of the Sun (Rainbow)

[pokerfan]

Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun emits light of nearly every color, it does indeed appear brightest in yellow-green light. The dark patches in the above spectrum arise from gas at or above the Sun's surface absorbing sunlight emitted below. Since different types of gas absorb different colors of light,

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150628.html

[Glassunion]

1. My wife has a name for each of them...

I can name 4.

[Lionel Mandrake]

2. Not quite.

Every color that can be displayed on a computer screen is a combination of red, green, and blue. The color violet is not any such combination. It appears in a rainbow, but not in this or any other image on a computer screen.