My six year old son ask me and I did not know so I am asking. What makes the sky blue?

Answer 1

The problem is that you still wouldn't be able to explain "light" to a six year old. The sky is blue because light from the sun turns the sky blue. The scientific explanation is that the molecules in our atmosphere scatter light in a wavelength that appears blue to our eyes.

Answer 2

I was gonna answer with something stupid, but I actually know the answer. The sky is made up of water particles, which act as prisms. Just like a rainbow, being the light of the sun being split up by the water particles into all visible light, the particles in the sky filter out everything but blue. A common misconception is that the sky is a reflection of the sea. Though instead of asking a question like this on yahoo, I would suggest looking it up in a encyclopedia.

Answer 3

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.

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Answer 4

it is because when the ray from the sun light go through the ozone layer, much of the wavelength of the white light is absorbed by the gas molecules in much particular the Hydrogen. It absorbed the blue light and it is radiated to different direction in the sky. the same thing apply when you have a white neon light. if you have a blue phosphor, the neon will turn into blue.

Answer 5

The sky is blue because air scatters short-wavelength light in preference to longer wavelengths. When we look toward a part of the sky not near the sun, the blue color we see is blue light waves scattered down toward us from the white sunlight passing through the air overhead.

Answer 6

Sunlight, which is white light, shines into the atmosphere. The water vapor in the air absorbs most light wavelengths more than the blue wavelengths, making the sky look blue.

Answer 7

the sun gives off white light, which includes all the colors of the rainbow. each color of light has a different wavelength. it just so happens that the stuff that the sky is made of is the same size as blue light wavelengths. so, only blue light reflects off the, making the sky blue.

Answer 8

When sunlight travels through the atmosphere, blue light scatters more than the other colors, leaving a dominant yellow-orange hue to the transmitted light. The scattered light makes the sky blue; the transmitted light makes the sunset reddish orange.


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Answer 9

It has to do with wave lengths and reflective colors. Blue is one of the shortest wave lengths and so the atmosphere reflects the color blue. He may not understand that though so you can tell him anything!

Answer 10

the sky is blue because of the reflection from the water. the sky itself isnt actually blue. however, there are some chemicals in the air that cuases a blue like hue to form