Ever wonder why the sky is blue, vs. say red, orange or purple? An effect called Rayleigh Scattering is part of the reason we ...
It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something ...
The sky isn't just blue by chance. It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after ...
If Earth had no atmosphere like the Moon there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...
In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as ...
Light at the blue end of the rainbow is scattered more efficiently than the other colors. shomos uddin/Moment via Getty Images ...