Like most curious people, you have probably asked at some time, “absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy is the sky blue?” It’s so absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy that the sky is blue, you might absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy the reasons would be just as obvious. They aren’t! Of all the absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy of the rainbow, why blue?

As the absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy light from the Sun enters Earth’s absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy, much of the red, yellow, and green wavelengths of absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy (mixed together and still nearly white) pass absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy through the atmosphere to our eyes. The blue and violet absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy, however, are just the right size to get absorbedatmospherecolorslightobviousstraightthinkwaveswhiteWhy by the molecules of gas in the atmosphere, then spit out again, but in all directions.