why is the sky blue?

Answer 1

beats neon green!!

Answer 2

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

Also a few links to check out, basically colors other than blue pass through the sky and some blue gets reflected back to you to see.

Answer 3

The sky aborbs most pigments except blue. There are many short blue rays of light that are reflected back to your eye after all other colors are absorbed.

Answer 4

The Earth's gravity is pulling tiny dust particles into our atmosphere and the sun's light hits the tiny particles and scatters the tiny blue wave length that's in white light.

Answer 5

its the way the sun reflects off the atmosphere which is why at night its black looking directley into space as the sun risesso does the atmoshpere hope that helps

Answer 6

because green was just too freaking bold!