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actionfromafar 3 days ago

You are quite right, I had no idea.

"Between around 10,000 nm (far infrared) and around 100 nm (deep ultraviolet), the spectrum of the Sun's spectral irradiance agrees reasonably well (though not perfectly) with that of a blackbody radiator at about 5,700K. That is about the temperature of the Sun's photosphere. The deviation from a perfect blackbody spectrum is due to many factors, including the absorption of light by constituents of the solar atmosphere, and the fact that the photosphere is not uniform, but has some hotter and some cooler regions, so that what is seen from the Earth is a composite spectrum of blackbody radiators at a range of different temperatures. About 99% of the total electromagnetic radiation coming from the Sun is in the ultraviolet-visible-infrared region."

https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/anonftp/acd/daac_ozone/Lecture...