Northern Sky has long been a fan-favorite from Nick Drake. Its lyrics seem to depict an emotional release for Drake while also touching on spiritual themes such as fate and karma. Jeff Lynne explained that this 1977 hit from ELO has an obscure lyric at its conclusion which many fans have recently discovered. This track…
As soon as sunlight reaches Earth’s atmosphere, gases and particles scatter it all around in all directions – blue light being scattered more widely than other hues; hence why the sky appears blue. Irish scientist John Tyndall first demonstrated this principle in 1859 by passing a beam of white light through a liquid with floating…
Astronomers have known since the 1980s that Saturn’s iconic rings have been diminishing rapidly since they appeared over 400 million years ago. Scientists estimate that at their current rate of decline, one swimming pool worth of water could fall onto Saturn every 30 seconds – rendering its iconic rings nearly extinct within 300 million years!…
Infantrymen wear a light blue cord around their right shoulder as a symbol of their connection to the branch; this cord is known as a fourrager. Only soldiers and officers with an infantry military occupational specialty (MOS 11A and those who complete infantry One Station Unit Training) may wear the cord. This includes recruits completing…
The sky is blue due to how light is scattered by our atmosphere. Sunlight contains all visible frequencies; however, only certain ones are absorbed or reflected back; leaving behind other frequencies to be dispersed into blue and cyan hues of the spectrum. Some languages provide specific terminology to distinguish different hues of blue and green;…
Saturn’s rings are truly magnificent to behold and an immense source of wonder to astronomers, yet those magnificent icy structures won’t last forever. Micrometeorites from space and solar radiation interact with Saturn’s rings to disrupt them and make them electric, binding them together along invisible magnetic field lines that lead them straight towards Saturn’s atmosphere…
Sunlight may appear colorless, but its makeup consists of different wavelengths which combine to form what we perceive as white light. White light contains all of the colors from the rainbow including red, orange, yellow, green blue indigo and violet hues. As sunlight passes through Earth’s atmosphere, it encounters gas molecules and is scattered all…
Sunlight from Earth passes through Earth’s atmosphere and is scattered by gas molecules, producing many different patterns of illumination. Red, orange and yellow wavelengths pass directly through the atmosphere while blue-tinged wavelengths such as violet get strongly dispersed into other directions. Your eyes see the sky as blue due to certain physical processes; let’s discuss…
The Sky Blue Song can be heard at every Coventry City match and has become synonymous with our club following escapes from relegation, the League Two Play-Off Final and triumphs over Colchester United – but how did it begin? Jimmy Hill and Club Director John Camkin wrote the song together in 1962 and traveled around…
