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White sunlight is really a lot of different colors of light mixed together.
Some colors of light travel through air and dust better than others. Red goes a long, long way.
But blue light gets bounced around a lot. Our blue sky is blue light that has been bounced out of sunlight by gazillions of molecules of air.
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Why is space black and the sky is blue?
About 20 miles above the Earth, the sky appears black. So what happens between there and here? Light, you might know, travels in waves. And the WAVES of different colors…
Why is the ocean blue?
Believe it or not, no one is really sure why the ocean is blue! As you may know, sunlight, or “white” light, is actually made up of all the colors…
What do the colors red, white, and blue symbolize in the American flag?
The colors of the American flag symbolize absolutely nothing. The colors red, white, and blue did not have specific meanings when the original Stars and Stripes flag was adopted in…
Why are primary colors called primary?
The colors red, blue, and green are called primary because by mixing just these three colors you can create all the colors in the spectrum. Most of the colors that…
If you are color-blind does that mean you see things in black and white like those old movies on TV?
Eyes are miraculous contraptions! When light goes through the lens at the front of your eye, it travels back to a projection screen called your retina which is packed tightly…