Why is th sky blue when space is black?

Answer 1

Because god made it so

Answer 2

We owe some of our most spectacular atmospheric phenomena to various types of scattering: the blue of the sky, the red of the sunset, the white of clouds and, that epitome of rare occurrences, the blue moon. Most blue and green bird-feather colors involve scattering, as do many animal and some vegetable blues.

Our sky is colored because our atmosphere makes blue light when sunlight passes through it. This phenomenon is called "scattering." It is similar to when sunbeams reveal themselves in the presence of dust, most spectacularly in cathedrals. The atmosphere causes the sky to be colored.

If there were no atmosphere, the sky would appear black, like the lunar sky in Apollo pictures taken from the moon. But even a black sky has some lightness... Even at night, the sky always has a faint color, called "skyglow" by astronomers. Atmospheres also cause skyglow from faint airglow in the upper atmosphere (a permanent, low-grade aurora), and starlight scattered in the atmosphere. Even if there were no atmosphere, faint skyglow is caused by sunlight reflected off interplanetary dust (zodiacal light), and background light from faint, unresolved stars and nebulosity.

Answer 3

Black isn't exactly a color, it's just the absence of light--so it's easily "wiped out" by any light that happens to show up.

The blue glow of the sky comes from sunlight. Sunlight hits all parts of the sky (at least on the half of the earth that's currently turned toward the sun). Imagine a patch of sky that's directly over your head, and imagine that the sun is off to the side somewhere (but still "up"). Light from the sun hits that overhead patch of sky. Some of that light just keeps heading in the same direction and you never see it. But some of it gets "scattered" (that is, it bounces off the air molecules and heads off in a different direction); in that case, some of it gets scattered so it points down to you, and you see brightness instead of dark. It so happens that blue light scatters more than other colors, and that's why the scattered light you see is blue.

Answer 4

This color is caused by our sun reflecting through the particles of our atmosphere which are mostly Carbon Dioxide. The technical reasons are Mie scattering and Rayleigh scattering.

The sky can appear in reddish tones at sunrise and sunsets since the light rays are travelling through more particles in the atmosphere before they reach our eyes and thus the bluish rays being more deflected and absorbed by larger particles.

The Moon's sky is black since it contains no atmosphere. And the sky of Mars is butterscotch tan due to it's atmosphere containing mostly limunite dust particles.

Answer 5

Actually there is no such thing as "sky" Its just the color of the atmosphere and all the gases that are in it. And the space is black b.c there is an absents of light. Other wise if were to light up space who knows what color it will actually be.

Answer 6

The sun gives off full spectrum light, all colors except blue are filtered out.

Answer 7

Reflection of the seas off the atmosphere

Answer 8

bkoz, ozone is blue in colour.when sunlight falls on the layer of the ozone it just acts like a coloured paper.

Answer 9

cuz da moon is hiding and da sun it shines on da stuff in da air,yea,it freaks me out tooo,im gonna think bout dat...........