Why Is The Sky Blue? #shorts

This is mainly due to a phenom called “rayleigh scattering.”
Sunlight is white; when white light passes through a prism, it disperses into different colors.
Colors are electromagnetic waves of different frequencies that our eyes can see. The red waves are longer, and the blue and violet ones are shorter.
The atmosphere is made up of gases such as oxygen or nitrogen.
When sunlight enters the atmosphere, the gases cause the longer waves to pass through without a problem, but the shorter ones bounce all over the place before reaching our eyes.
In other words, the gases in the air as oxygen and nitrogen, cause the blue colors to spread more than the red colors.

#sky #insanecuriosity #shorts

[slayera_hearts]

The blue color of the sky is primarily due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. When sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, it is made up of different colors of light, each with a specific wavelength. The Earth's atmosphere contains molecules and tiny particles that can scatter these sunlight wavelengths.

In particular, shorter wavelengths of light, such as blue and violet, are scattered more effectively than longer wavelengths like red and yellow. As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue light is scattered in all directions, creating the characteristic blue appearance of the sky.

This scattering effect is more pronounced when the sun is higher in the sky, which is why the sky often appears more blue during the day. During sunrise or sunset, when the sun is lower on the horizon, the sunlight has to pass through a thicker layer of the atmosphere, causing more scattering of shorter wavelengths and giving rise to the warm colors observed during those times.

So, in summary, the blue color of the sky is a result of the selective scattering of sunlight by the Earth's atmosphere, with shorter wavelengths dominating the scattered light.

[umairakhtarbahawal]

Violet has a 380–450 nm wavelength, & Blue has a 450–495 nm wavelength.. According to your explanation, we should see the sky as violent. I think it has something to do with our cones as well.

[Marc]

Bro just said the sky is blue because it's blue.

[ryandude]

You ever been to England? The sky is grey bro 😂

[kanewelio]

When white light passes through a prism the sun is white, it goes to many colours, that is called religh scattering.

[magnifiedmicrons]

Any kid can answer this that the sky might be blue because blue might be scattered the most.

Tell me why does Oxygen and Nitrogen molecules scatter tge blue or violet the most without using any stupid law of Rayleigh scattering and saying that scattering delends inversely on fourth power of wavelength.

Can you explain what is happening at molecular and atomic levels that is causing Nitrogen and Oxygen molecules to scatter the blue most 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[YoungGandalf]

This explains the physics if "how" the sky appears blue, but not the philosophical reason "why" the sky is blue. I'm not sure if there's an answer for that question.

[atticuswalker]

I call bulshit. because there are more particles at the horison to scatter more blue. but it looks red at sunset. and don't tell me it's the increased distance. where is the evidence. might aswell tell me it's faries.

[johncass]

Everybody knows why the sky is blue, otherwise, where would you quit mowing?