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A deep blue sky with towering white cumulus clouds above rooftops and palm trees in Kolkata
Science & Space· 9 min read

Why Is the Sky Blue?

Sunlight is white, yet the sky above us is blue. The answer is a trick of scattering by the air itself, and it explains red sunsets, the butterscotch skies of Mars and the voyage that set C.V. Raman on the road to a Nobel Prize.