why is the sky blue?

Its a real shame kids today don't know basic science from grade 3. Or even how to use simple search engines online to find information.

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/sky.htm
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html

Its amazing how much information can be found in just a few seconds of searching. But I guess its too much to expect kids today to do anything for themselves.

The sky is every color but blue. It reflects the color that is not its own. What you see may not reveal the true nature of color. You may think it's a reflection of the ocean's color, but that's not true. Ocean's color is blue, so the sky is blue, right? Not really. Everything has a magnetic frequency, just like the sky. The other colors are invisible to the eye simply because humans' eye is not in tune with the frequency of the other colors. The visible color is the color that is NOT the real color of the sky. What you see may not always be so real... Other creatures like insects and birds, or creatures of other species may see a different color of the sky, because their eyes are in tune with a different frequency! The mysteries of the universe can never be truly understood, and that's where the magic lies. ;)

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. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

the ocean reflection causes a blue sky ive read.

There is no colour to the atmosphere as it is transparent. Scattering of the various wavelengths of light cause our perception of colour and during the day the sky looks blue because blue light in the spectrum of the Sun is scattered less by the atmosphere than other wavelengths.

Spend a second of your life to type 'Rayleigh scattering' into Google.

Rayleigh scattering.

The Light from the Sun contains all the Visible Colors. Blue Light has the Shortest Wavelength and is Scattered More in the Earth's Air. It is called Rayleigh Scattering.
The Oceans have NOTHING to do with the sky being Blue.

The diameters of the molecules in th air have the same wavelengths as blue and green light. The N2, O2, CO2 molecules and Ar atoms act like little mirrors, if the molcules do not absorb sunlight , they reflect is in all different directions including toward the ground. This is why the sky seems to be an aquamarine color. Water molecules have larger diameter. That why clouds are white to gray to almost block if you have ever been walking or driving in Fog. Fog is a cloud o at ground level.

The atmosphere is NOT emitting blue photons.. The reason the sky is blue is because of the the diameters of the molecules and atoms are equal to the wavelengths of blue and green light and this why blued green light is scattered in all directions. They are NOT emitting photons. They are REFLECTING and scattering blue AND green photons. . THAT is why the sky is blue.

"...Rayleigh scattering




The scattering of light by particles that are small in relation to the wavelength of the light. Rayleigh scattering of short wavelengths in sunlight by gas molecules in the atmosphere is the reason the sky appears blue. The phenomenon is named after the English physicist Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919).

In Rayleigh scattering, the amount of scattering (d) is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength (λ). Thus blue light is scattered by small particles ten times as much as red light. ..."

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Carol · 2 weeks ago

Rayleigh Scattering

The sky is blue because a big blueberry threwup