why is the sky blue?

Answer 1

The sun's rays hit the
Earth's
atmosphere, where the light is scattered by nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air. The blue wavelength of this light is affected more than the red and green wavelengths, causing the surrounding air to appear blue. At sunset, the sun's light passes farther through the atmosphere, deflecting and decreasing the blue in the air. Scattering by dust particles and pollution in the air causes the sunset to appear red.

Answer 2

The sky is blue because when the white light coming from the sun hits the Ozone molecules in our atmosphere, it affects the yellow part of the wavelength making the sun seem yellow and the sky seem blue. It's called Rayleigh Scattering, not Raman...

Answer 3

The sky is blue partly because air scatters short-wavelength light in preference to longer wavelengths. Where the sunlight is nearly tangent to the Earth's surface, the light's path through the atmosphere is so long that much of the blue and even yellow light is scattered out, leaving the sun rays and the clouds it illuminates red, at sunrise and sunset.
well srry i had a diff question in mind so confused this one wid raman effect....

Answer 4

the rays from sun are divided in the atmosphere of the earth& the white light is divided into 7 colours
they are VIBGYOAR
among these violet & indigo are not dispersed but blue is dispersed& thus sky appears blue

Answer 5

it is due to the refraction of light off the atmosphere, the spectrum that we see is the blue spectrum for the sky.

Answer 6

blue represents peace & happiness---qualities of God and the sky is closer to heaven

Answer 7

What...you'd rather have green sky?

Answer 8

wouldn't you be blue if someone was constantly blowing smoke in your face? ;) LOL

Answer 9

it's the reflection of some water formation...

Answer 10

it just is that way, though i think it's for some scientific reason