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Hi, I'm Alexandra Samsel with more science news you can use.

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Why is the sky blue?

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Hey, sometimes the sky is red or orange or some other color.

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Why is that?

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I'll get to that.

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First, let's figure out why the sky is blue.

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The sun produces light containing all the colors of the rainbow, but all those colors

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combined produce white light, like the colors of the spinning circle.

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All the colors are still there, but mixed together, they appear white.

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So why is the sky blue or orange or whatever?

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Blue light waves are absorbed by the gases in the air and get scattered all over the

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sky.

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But at the sunset, most of the blue light has been scattered by the time the light reaches

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you.

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What you see are the colors of the sunset.

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Until next time, I'm Alexandra Samsel with more science news you can use.