The Sky Tower stands as an icon on the city skyline and can be seen for miles around. Built of steel, its 105-meter height ensures it can withstand earthquakes with high magnitude as well as strong winds. The tower lights up in various colors to symbolize respect and solidarity for charities, community initiatives, holidays and…
Saturn’s icy rings won’t disappear any time soon, even though they might become harder to see for some time due to an event known as “ring plane crossing”. Once every 13 to 16 years, Saturn’s ring plane passes close enough to Earth that their presence becomes difficult for us to discern from Earth’s perspective –…
Blue is a relaxing color that inspires trust and calmness, representing water and the sky. Let these hilarious blue jokes add some humor and relaxation into your day! The sky appears blue due to sunlight being scattered by gases and particles in the atmosphere, allowing only shorter wavelengths from reaching our eyes and creating what…
Children are naturally curious about their world. A question often raised is: Why is the sky blue? Light is scattered as it travels through the atmosphere by air molecules; blue wavelengths tend to be more strongly scattered. The Sun’s Light The Sun emits light over an array of wavelengths (or colors). Our eyes, however, perceive…
At night, the sky is dark blue due to atmospheric scattering of sunlight. Blue light scatters more readily than red light due to shorter wavelengths being more easily diffused into space. Answer is straightforward physics: as the Sun gets lower in the sky, more of its light passes through your atmosphere to reach you –…
Not many can resist admiring a picturesque blue sky, yet few understand why its hue comes about. No, it doesn’t come from oxygen levels in the atmosphere or because sunlight emits blue rays; there’s another explanation. Light that reaches Earth’s atmosphere is scattered by gases and particles in the air, with blue wavelength light being…
On Thursday evening, parts of Queens were illuminated in an electric blue glow that caused quite the stir on social media, leading many people to speculate whether aliens were visiting. A spokesperson from Con Edison assured us it was more mundane. The mysterious blue light emanating from an electrical fire in a transformer substation near…
Everyone appreciates a lovely blue sky on a bright day, yet many savvy individuals have puzzled over why it should be that color. Rayleigh scattering, which occurs when light hits gases and particles in the atmosphere, accounts for this phenomenon. Light with shorter wavelengths such as blue is scattered more readily than other colors. Rayleigh…
Blue has long been thought of as making the sky appear clear and blue, but this effect is actually caused by gases and particles in our atmosphere. They scatter shorter wavelengths such as blue light more readily than their redder counterparts, producing that hue. Many people believe the ocean’s hue reflects the sky, but in…
