why does sky look blue??

Sky looks blue due the scattering of light by the Earth’s atmosphere.

Light scattering is a very strong function of the frequency of light. Blue light scatters much more than red light. Because of this scattering the blue light is removed from the solar spectrum which makes the sun appear yellowish and the blue scattered light appears as the beautiful blue sky above you.


The scattering by the molecules in the atmosphere is called Rayleigh scattering. This type of light scattering is more effective at short wavelengths- the blue end of the visible spectrum. The scattering function is proportional to the fourth power of the frequency of light. So, blue light will scatter about nine times more than red light.

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Sunlight interacting with the Earth's atmosphere makes the sky blue. In outer space the astronauts see blackness because outer space has no atmosphere. 
Sunlight consists of light waves of varying wavelengths, each of which is seen as a different color. The minute particles of matter and molecules of air in the atmosphere intercept and scatter the white light of the sun. A larger portion of the blue color in white light is scattered, more so than any other color because the blue wavelengths are the shortest. 

When the size of atmospheric particles are smaller than the wavelengths of the colors, selective scattering occurs-the particles only scatter one color and the atmosphere will appear to be that color. Blue wavelengths especially are affected, bouncing off the air particles to become visible. 

This is why the sun looks yellow from Earth (yellow equals white minus blue). In space, the sun appears white because there is nothing in between to scatter its white light. 

At sunset, the sky changes color because as the sun drops to the horizon, sunlight has more atmosphere to pass through and loses more of its blue wavelengths. The orange and red, having the longer wavelengths and making up more of sunlight at this distance, are most likely to be scattered by the air particles. 

The scattering of visible light by atmospheric gases is most correctly called the Tyndall effect, but it is more commonly known to physicists as Rayleigh scattering after Lord Rayleigh, who studied it in more detail a few years later. Rayleigh Scattering is where red, orange, yellow, and green are passed through and blue, indigo, and violet are "scattered" out creating the color. 

Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blu
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WHEN SUNLIGHT ENTERS THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE' THE ATOMS OR MOLECULES OF THE GASSES PRESENT IN THE ATMOSPHERESCATTER THIS LIGHT. SINCE WAVELENGTH OF RED COLOUR IS LARGER THAN THE WAVELENGTHS OF OTHER COLOURS IN SUNLIGHT' SO RED COLOUR IS SCATTERED LESS. VIOLET COLOUR IS SCATTERED D MOST FOLLOWED BY BLUE,GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE& REDCOLOURS RESP. OUR EYE IS MORE SENSITIVE TO THE BLUE LIGHT THAN THE VIOLET LIGHT. THEREFORE, SCATTERED LIGHT IN THE SKY CONTAINS BLUE COLOUR IN PLENTY & HENCE THE CLEAR SKY APPEARS BLUE.

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