On Tuesday, June 3, the sunset in northern Jersey is at 8:24 p.m., while further south it'll be closer to 8:20 p.m. The sunset will be a few minutes later in the days leading up to the first day ...

Why does the sky turn red, orange, and pink at sunset? The phenomenon of scattering is also why the sky turns red, orange, and pink at sunset. Crucially, you need some cloud to see this.

Red has the longest wavelength and violet has the shortest wavelength. The reason why the sky is blue during the day and red at sunset is because of how the light interacts with the gases and ...

Aside from the haze in the sky, at sunset and sunrise you will likely notice more of a red or orange tint to the sun. Why? The smoke particles actually scatter out the shorter wavelengths of light ...

During a sunset, however, light scattering works differently. The sun’s light has a lot further to travel. Blue wavelengths are filtered out, and so the red and orange wavelengths peer through ...