It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: Blue light from the Sun is scattered the most when ...

Why Sunsets And Sunrises Dazzle In Red? If the sky is blue during the day, why does it turn brilliant shades of red and orange at sunrise and sunset? The answer lies in the angle of the Sun and ...

Therefore, near sunrise and sunset, a cloud's color is what sunlight ... clouds will appear gray or dark gray against a blue sky or larger backdrop of white clouds. There are usually two reasons ...

Sunset, Banffshire (Image: Christine Webster) “Blue light doesn’t travel particularly well through the air, which is why the sky is blue," he said. "It gets scattered across the top of the ...