What caused the missing colors on the electromagnetic spectrum for the sun?(1 point)

Question

Responses

They were absorbed when leaving the sun.
They were absorbed when leaving the sun.

Those colors are not produced by the sun.
Those colors are not produced by the sun.

The heat of the sun vaporizes those colors.
The heat of the sun vaporizes those colors.

They were emitted when leaving the sun.

Answer 1

The correct response is: They were absorbed when leaving the sun.

When the sunlight passes through the layers of the sun's atmosphere, certain colors (wavelengths) are absorbed by gases and elements present there, resulting in the missing colors (dark lines) observed in the spectrum. This phenomenon is known as absorption lines in the spectrum.