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

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