Why is the sky blue?

Answer 1

because that's the name early people gave to the color of the sky.

Answer 2

Because water within the atmosphere at that height, along
with clouds and other conditions create the blue illusion from the ground. In the air the sky doesn't even have a color unless there is a storm present. Then it become black. Peace.

Answer 3

the sky is blue because the sun bounces off the water on earth making the sky blue, in other words the sun shines off the water making the sky blue ^_^

Answer 4

Why is the Sky Blue?


It is easy to see that the sky is blue. Have you ever wondered why? A lot of other smart people have, too. And it took a long time to figure it out!

The light from the Sun looks white. But it is really made up of all the colors of the rainbow.



A prism is a specially shaped crystal. When white light shines through a prism, the light is separated into all its colors.

If you visited The Land of the Magic Windows, you learned that the light you see is just one tiny bit of all the kinds of light energy beaming around the Universe--and around you!

Like energy passing through the ocean, light energy travels in waves, too. Some light travels in short, "choppy" waves. Other light travels in long, lazy waves. Blue light waves are shorter than red light waves.



All light travels in a straight line unless something gets in the way to--


reflect it (like a mirror)

bend it (like a prism)

or scatter it (like molecules of the gases in the atmosphere)

Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.


Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. As the sunlight has passed through all this air, the air molecules have scattered and rescattered the blue light many times in many directions. Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light. All this scattering mixes the colors together again so we see more white and less blue.

Answer 5

the atoms in the atmosphere ommit blue light when exposed to the suns rays, due to the intesity of energy transferred into them by the sun. this is also why the sky changes colour as the sun 'goes down'. as the sun's intensity changes, so does the energy transferred to the atoms, making them vibrate more/less, therefore the transition to the quantum shells changes dramatically, causing different 'colours' to be seen

Answer 6

The sky is vast and blue so that we may ponder the universe; and ourselves as mere specks; gazing upon such beauty.

Answer 7

bcuz each color has a wavelength and since blue is the shorest wavelength it defuses up to 10 times more

Answer 8

Light reflection, refraction and absorbtion through the ozone layer.

Answer 9

Reflection of the seas.

Answer 10

reflection of the sea i hear, and blue is the most beautiful color