Why is the sky blue?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

When transmitted light such as sunlight enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more by this collision. Because violet and blue are the shortest wavelengths the sky appears to be violet / blue. But because our eyes are more sensitive to blue light than they are violet light, we perceive the sky as blue.

Our eyes contain thousand of rods and cones, which are the receptors for light. Whenever one of the 3 Stooges pokes you in the eye you see a giant blue spot. This is because the blue receptors have been activated. Blue is one of the primary colors and thus more easily activated and seen by our eyes.

Blue is also how I feel when my baby leaves and my hound dog dies. Also, how I feel when the cops pull me over and I see their blue lights flashing in my rear view mirror. Then, again, blue is the color of the K-mart special, so this color isn't all bad.

Answer 3

The sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering, a type of photon scattering named after English physicist Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919), and which is caused by particles of the medium in which light spreads whose diameter is smaller than the wavelength of the light.

In the case of the blue sky, Rayleigh scattering affects light with shorter wavelengths, i.e., blue light, and that light gets scattered more in the Earth's atmosphere than redder light.

Answer 4

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.



The white light from the sun is a mixture of all colours of the rainbow. This was demonstrated by Isaac Newton, who used a prism to separate the different colours and so form a spectrum. The colours of light are distinguished by their different wavelengths. The visible part of the spectrum ranges from red light with a wavelength of about 720 nm, to violet with a wavelength of about 380 nm, with orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo between. The three different types of colour receptors in the retina of the human eye respond most strongly to red, green and blue wavelengths, giving us our colour vision.

Answer 5

Simply this, it is blue due to the refraction of sunlight through condensed water droplets in the atmosphere.

Not the oceans.

Answer 6

It because ref lax of suns reduction by o2 in sky.

Answer 7

It is a reflection of all the water on Mother Earth!

Answer 8

It isn't blue, It's just your mind playing tricks on you.

Answer 9

cuz thats the way the LORD made it,,,