Why is it that the sky is blue?

Question

and not, like, purple or green or something

Answer 1

its not actually blue, it only looks blue because of the suns light bouncing off the ozone layer.

Answer 2

The simple answer is, it isn't. The sky, technically, has no color to it. The blue you see is because the darkness of space, which is then lightened by the defraction of sunlight. The more sunlight, the more the defraction of light, the lighter the sky appears. It happens best in the shorter (bluer) wavelengths and is called Rayliegh Scatter.
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.
There is another scatter that I can't remember the name of right now. It is responsible for the beautiful red-orange sunset colors. That is because the angle of the sun allows the longer red-orange waves to get to us more directly. Therefor those colors predominate the early morning and late afternoon skies. I hope this helps you understand.

Answer 3

The sky is not actually blue. It is black. The light of the sun just makes it appear blue. For more information check out the site. It will definetly give you some answers!

Answer 4

We say the sky is blue because it looks more blue than yellow.

I'd rather have a green sky, green being such a restful colour!

Answer 5

The color of sky blue because of this that in atmosphere there are many different gasses and also many clouds which makes the sky to look blue .

Answer 6

the suns rays hit the earths atmosphere,where the light is scattered by nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air. the blue wavelengths is affected more than red and green appear at sunset the sunlight passes farther through the atmosphere,deflecting and decreasing the blue in the air. scattering by dust particles and pollution the air causes the sunset to appear red.


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Answer 7

The ocean reflects in the sky.

Answer 8

It is the way the atmosphere refracts the light and it hits on the blue spectrum (although sunsets are particularily orange and red)

Answer 9

sky reflect only blue colour and have quality to observe others

Answer 10

beacuse the colors in the rainbow are called weevlings. and all of them have a span. since blue is the smallest one its expanded up 10X more than the other colors!!