The Sky Color Blue

Sky blue is an inviting color that helps people remain calm and focused. It makes an excellent backdrop in your home office or bedroom and pairs nicely with warm wood accents like bed frames or nightstands. This soothing shade represents hope, trust and faith – perfect to encourage us all to remain confident about the…

Mom, Why is the Sky Blue in French?

Mother is one of the most frequently heard words among children today, often reduced to momma or mommy for short. A mother serves multiple roles including caretaker, unconditional love giver, housekeeper, cook/baker/bakery/taxi driver/psychologist as well as disciplinarian. A mom can even serve as disciplinarian. Moms are multitasking geniuses and they look at their children with…

Saturn’s Rings Might Disappear in a Few Hundred Million Years

Most of us assume Saturn’s iconic rings will always remain, but new research demonstrates their eventual demise at an astoundingly rapid rate. Micrometeoroids often emit ultraviolet radiation that charges small particles in their rings electrically. When this happens, these charged particles become attracted along magnetic field lines into our planet’s upper atmosphere and slowly fall…

Why is the Sky Color Blue?

Children often wonder why the sky is blue, which has perplexed adults, too. This question can be answered using three facts relating to physics, physiology and chemistry. As sunlight travels through Earth’s atmosphere, shorter wavelengths like violet and blue light scatter more effectively than longer ones (like red). This phenomenon gives sky its distinctive blue…

Why is the Sky Blue?

As sunlight passes through our atmosphere it becomes scattered in all directions by gas molecules, with shorter wavelengths (blue and violet) getting scattered more than longer wavelengths (red and orange), which gives the sky its characteristic hue of blue. At sunrise and sunset, the Sun’s light travels further through Earth’s atmosphere, scattering more red and…

Why is the Sky Blue?

The sky is blue because sunlight reaching Earth’s atmosphere gets scattered. As it travels through the air, tiny oxygen and nitrogen molecules scatter light at shorter wavelengths such as blue and violet more so than red and orange wavelengths. When blue light hits gas molecules, it rebounds off them at right angles and your eyes…

Why is the Sky Blue?

If you look up, the sky appears blue due to Earth’s atmospheric gases and particles scattering blue light more than any other color, an effect known as Rayleigh Scattering. Violet light has longer wavelengths than blue light, so it doesn’t disperse as quickly, creating reddish-orange tones during sunset and sunrise. Light Scattering Why the sky…