Earth is famous for its blue skies. It gets it blue skies through an effect known as Rayleigh scattering. When light from the Sun collides with an air molecule, it is scattered. The closer the ...

Every morning I look out my bedroom window, like some daily spiritual ablution, hoping to see blue skies. As the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” Composer ...

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The blue color of the daytime sky results from Rayleigh scattering, where atmospheric atoms and molecules preferentially scatter the blue wavelengths of sunlight more than red, rather than being the ...

The skies over Japan turned a deep purple last week ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Hagibis. The powerful storm pounded central and northern prefectures over the weekend. Villages along more than 20 ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent ...