For anyone curious, some years ago I talked with the NSO outreach folks, and they were aware then that the Sun is white, and that yellow/orange is a misconception widespread and problematic in both astronomy education and the general US population, and that their colorizations were not helping with that. Their justification was roughly that you need to hook people with what they expect, and only then can you make progress with educating them. I thought and think that that's very much the wrong call, as well as over the line ethically, but... oh well.<p>Though the misconception really is pervasively widespread, even among first-tier astronomy graduate students, so perhaps there might now be a degree of confusion present as well. And a (very) few instances of colorization are representationally valid, if unfortunate in their collateral damage, as when representing that some instrument's sampling band is in yellow.