It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: Blue light from the Sun is scattered the most when ...

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As a result, our eyes perceive the sky as blue during the day. However, at sunrise and sunset, the story changes. As sunlight travels through a greater portion of the atmosphere, shorter ...

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Sunset, Banffshire (Image: Christine Webster) “Blue light doesn’t travel particularly well through the air, which is why the sky is blue," he said. "It gets scattered across the top of the ...

the sky is not always blue. And Rayleigh scattering also explains why the sky tends to be reddish when the Sun is close to the horizon – at sunrise and sunset.When the Sun is near the horizon ...