The incoming energy from the Sun to Earth is mainly visible sunlight, called the visible portion of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. We perceive visible sunlight as colors from violet (short-wave radiation) to red (long-wave radiation).
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Graph showing the mostly visible radiation spectrum emitted from the Sun as seen from the surface of the Earth (left curve) and the IR radiation emitted Earth as seen from space (right curve). Compared it to Figure 1 this graph shows the wavelengths that are absorbed by atmospheric gases, causing gaps in the spectrum.
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The longer wavelengths (red) and the shorter wavelengths (blue) get separated. Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The word usually refers to visible light, which is visible to the human eye and is responsible for the sense of sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light
Common glass – such as in the windows of our homes – is transparent to visible light. Glass however reflects most infrared light and absorbs ultraviolet. When visible light enters a room, it is absorbed by furniture, rugs etc. These items convert part of the light to heat – or infrared radiation.
https://www.universetoday.com/10220/where-does-visible-light-come-from/
The Sun in Visible Light. What we call visible light can be broken into two categories: white light, and filtered light. White light pictures show how the Sun appears to the naked eye, when all the colors of the rainbow are collected by the camera. Filtered light refers to the selection of specific colors by using a filter.
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Spotlight/Today/visible.html
Light can pass into matter, through matter, reflect off matter, or be absorbed by matter. When light passes into matter, light slows – while its frequency increases. When light reflects, the path it takes changes. When light is absorbed, electrons are stimulated potentially leading to new molecular combinations.
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However, rather than exhibiting a single wavelength, visible light is usually a mixture of wavelengths whose varying composition is a function of the light source from which it is emitted. During day-to-day living, most people encounter only a small number of visible light sources. When venturing outside, for instance, the vast majority of the light that can be seen is emitted from the sun, which also emits many other frequencies of radiation that do not fall in the visible range. Inside, however, visible light primarily comes from artificial sources, most often fluorescent or tungsten devices.
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/lightandcolor/sources.html
Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), or 4.00 × 10−7 to 7.00 × 10−7 m, between the infrared (with longer wavelengths) and the ultraviolet (with shorter wavelengths). This wavelength means a frequency range of roughly 430–750 terahertz (THz).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light
Electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, ranging from high energy gamma rays through visible light and down to low energy radio waves. Various astronomical phenomena can only be observed via specific wavelengths different from visible light.
http://www.sun.org/encyclopedia/electromagnetic-spectrum
The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Radiation. 1  An idealized spectrum of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun, with a temperature of 6000 °C (~11,000 °F) , and the much cooler Earth, with a surface temperature of 15 °C (~60 °F).
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visible light from the sun
The incoming energy from the Sun to Earth is mainly visible sunlight, called the visible portion of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.