On a clear, sunny day, the sky above us often glows a brilliant blue, a sight so commonplace that many of us rarely stop to question why. While this natural phenomenon might seem simple to explain, ...

ST. LOUIS – The sky is always changing colors—from a bright blue on a clear day, to red and orange sunrises or sunsets, or multiple colors of a rainbow—there’s a lot going on that we don’t always ...

Visible light travels in electromagnetic waves, which we see as the colors of the rainbow. Different colors have different wavelengths of light. Violet and blue have the shortest wavelengths, whereas ...

The blue color of the daytime sky results from Rayleigh scattering, where atmospheric atoms and molecules preferentially scatter the blue wavelengths of sunlight more than red, rather than being the ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in different ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Remember learning your colors for the first time in kindergarten? One of the first things you learn is that the sky is blue. Everyone knows that, right? But, did they ever ...

THE blue color of the sky on a clear day is familiar to all. And yet how many have considered the source of this delicate mantle of azure which Nature spreads over the dome of the heavens? The ...

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