Today, Sept. 6th, 2007. The sun was red. You could look directly at it and nothing would happen to your eyes. There was no pain in doing it. Then the sun turned to a some-what Orange color.
2007-09-06 04:14:18 · 9 answers · asked by Shelby G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Some heavy smoke or dust in the air. Could be a nearby forest fire putting smoke into the sky.
2007-09-06 04:18:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is the Sun red at sunset?
And why is the sky blue? Both occur because sunlight is scattered by atmospheric molecules. Short wavelength (such as blue) are scattered more, and short ones (that is red) scatter less.
The scattering changes the direction in which light moves. Some of it is redirected upwards, which is why Earth viewed from the Moon appears like a big blue marble. And some is scattered down, reaching the eye from some direction other than that of the Sun, since it was redirected--from somewhere in the sky. Hence the sky is blue.
At sunset light reaching the eye has traveled at a shallow angle and traversed a great thickness of air. It has encountered a lot of scattering, and much of its blue light had been redirected. Remove the blue from balanced sunlight and what is left is the long-wave stuff, with a lot of red.
2007-09-09 16:21:52 · answer #2 · answered by P B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most likely, it was smoke in the air that filtered the sun's rays...
I'm guessing you're in the Western USA ?
I remember when I lived in Hawaii, during the season when they burned the sugar-cane fields, the sunsets were ALWAYS brilliant reds, purples, and oranges as the sun was filtered thru the thick haze of smoke.
I HOPE another answerer can point you at the actual PHYSICS of what is in the air, and HOW it turns it red.
2007-09-06 04:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those promoters of the International Red Sun Day really dropped the ball this year!
2007-09-06 10:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're in the SF bay area, it's probably the smoke from the fire down in Santa Clara County. The fog this morning is probably contributing to that too.
2007-09-06 04:25:00 · answer #5 · answered by Hey it's Ken! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I see that too. I was freaked out. I scared my whole family by saying that it might be a meteor, lol. I stared at it, and it almost left me blind. That is the first time I have ever seen anything like this.
2007-09-06 04:47:27 · answer #6 · answered by rubbertoe17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Smallville isn't canon and can do whatever it wants.
2016-04-03 06:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Most People Said. about the fire and everything
2007-09-06 17:50:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I see it too. It's weird o.O
2007-09-06 04:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by Haruka-san 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋