Ever wonder why the sky is blue, vs. say red, orange or purple? An effect called Rayleigh Scattering is part of the reason we ...

When the Sun is near the horizon, its light passes through a lot more of the atmosphere to reach the Earth's surface than ...

If Earth had no atmosphere like the Moon there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...

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T he sky isn't just blue by chance. I t takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. I t happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering ...

On a bright, clear day, the sky stretches above us in a brilliant shade of blue. But have you ever wondered why? The answer lies in a fascinating phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering ...