I have a question here....why is the sky blue?

Question

please answer it as cleverly as you can....

Light Fighter...don't know the answer to your question...but I imagine "up" is really really high.....

Answer 1

i dont know how high is up

Answer 2

White sunlight is the total spectrum of electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun. If you've seen sunlight through a prism, you know that sunlight contains all the colors humans can see. The Earth's atmosphere scatters white light, and short-wavelength light (blue) is scattered more efficiently than longer wavelengths. During the day, the light is essentially hitting the earth "straight on" and passing through a relatively small amount of atmosphere resulting in blue light being scattered down toward us. As the sun approaches the horizon, the light passes through more atmosphere (shining "across" Earth) and the blue light is scattered even more, as well as away from us, to the point where very little blue light remains, leaving the longer wavelength lights behind (oranges, reds).

Answer 3

sure.

sky is blue is because of Rayleigh scattering. This has to do something to with the bending light. White light is made up of 7 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. As white light enter the atmosphere, part of it can either pass through the atmosphere, reflect or get scattered and it all depends on the frequency of each color. The atmosphere absorbs the color that has high frequency. Violet and blue have the highest frequency, therefore, they are absorbed by the atmosphere and get scattered around the atmosphere. Which gives the color of the sky (blue)

by the way, the sky is not exactly blue. That is how we see it. We see it as "blue" because our eyes are most sensitive to blue

Answer 4

That is a really good question.

There is a physical phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering that causes light to scatter when it passes through particles that have a diameter one-tenth that of the wavelength (color) of the light. Sunlight is made up of all different colors of light, but because of the elements in the atmosphere the color blue is scattered much more efficiently than the other colors.

So when you look at the sky on a clear day, you can see the sun as a bright disk. The blueness you see everywhere else is all of the atoms in the atmosphere scattering blue light toward you. (Because red light, yellow light, green light and the other colors aren't scattered nearly as well, you see the sky as blue.)

Go check it out :)

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

The sky isnt blue actually its purple but the color purple that it is our eyes dont see it. On the top of the second page on here explanes it in 3 small paragraphs

Answer 7

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. 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 andbend it
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 8

Because, the fluffy white clouds looked better against the blue.

Answer 9

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.

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.

Answer 10

its very easy it s because the atmosphere and the light through this< so this is an easy experiment in a glass of water put two or tree drops of milk it repesnts the clouds and atmosphere, so in a dark room light the glass trough a white wall< surprise the wall will be kind of blue....

Answer 11

Actually it is clear it just looks blue because it is dark in the universe.

I think.