Why is the sky blue?? & what makes the colors or the rainbow??

Question

Why is the sky blue?? & what makes the colors or the rainbow??

Answer 1

the sky is blue because of scattered nitrogen particles

(i think)

and rainbows (because they only come out when its half raining half sun) the rain reflects off the sun and creates the colours in the sky - like when you squint at the sun and you get rainbow colours

Answer 2

God...God creates the world

Answer 3

the sky is just... blue and ketchup is just red!  no one really knows the colors of the rainbow but here's a website I found!!!

http://www.zianet.com/rainbow/frcolor.ht...

Answer 4

its because grass is GREEN ...

lmao  

Answer 5

The sky is blue because God created it that way.  God also creates the rainbows, which is also the reason for the colors - it's all God's doing!

Answer 6

India J gave the best answer to this question, but to everyone who's saying that it's reflecting the water, you have it backwards, sillies! The water is actually blue because it's reflecting the SKY. have you noticed that when you pour water into a clear glass, it's (wow!) CLEAR!? not blue. Water is not naturally blue.

Answer 7

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blu...

Answer 8

the sunlight makes the colors

Answer 9

the sky is blue because of the light refraction by the atmosphere. Rainbows are caused by light being refracted by droplets in the air. They act like little prisms.

Answer 10

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

Ordinary white light, like that from the sun, is made up of many different colors all of which have a different wavelength.  Normally, when we see light from the sun, it appears colorless.  However, Isaac Newton discovered in 1666 that when he passed regular sunlight through a prism (basically, a triangular piece of glass), the prism would split the light up into a band of colors.

The band of colors is called the spectrum which appears in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

When it rains, the air is filled with raindrops.  These raindrops act like a prism.  If sunlight passes through the raindrops at the proper angle it is split into its spectrum, which is made up of the colors of the rainbow.

Answer 11

they sky is blue because it reflects all colors accept blue.

The colors of the rainbow are made when water in the air separates white light into the many colors that actually make up visible light.

Answer 12

water only filters one color from the light spectrum, blue. the sky is just a reflection of the oceans color

Answer 13

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.  

Answer 14

when light enters the atmosphere the light is spread and the blue wavelength is scattered throughout the atmosphere. every planet has different colors of the sky depending on the thickness of its atmosphere. for example mars the color of its sky is pink due to its thickness of the atmosphere. while the color of rainbows is like a prism, when raining sunlight passes through raindrops, when light passes through raindrops the white light will separate into seven colors because of the light's spectra. this process is called refraction. what makes it more beautiful that it is more larger spectra than you do it in the lab with a prism.

Answer 15

The sky is blue and the rainbow has different colors becasue this just means God is smiling

Answer 16

It is because certain molecules/substances soak up different amounts of light. White light is made up of the entire prism of colors. When white light hits a certain object, it reflects back some of the colors and soaks up others. For example, a black object is reflecting back to you all of the colors together. A red apple is soaking up all of the colors except for red. The molecules in the sky are working in the same way.

Answer 17

ummm...........

Answer 18

when it rains when the sun is out the rain mixes with the sun and makes different colors and th rainbow comes.. at least thats what my parents told me =)

Answer 19

idk about the sky but the rainbow is from the sun reflecting threw the water making different colors.

Answer 20

The sky it blue because if it was green you would never know when to stop mowing and rainbows show where leprachauns hide their gold.  It has nothing to do with refraction or reflection!

Answer 21

the sky is blue because of the large amount of water in the earths oceans reflecting in the upper atmosphere, and rainbows are created by sunlight reflecting through water vapor in the air causing it to appear as colors.

Answer 22

dnno .. but i do know why the waters blue :O .. because the colour of the sky reflects onto the water :) .. or is it the other way round ^o)  

Answer 23

i forgot. something to do with all the particles reflecting all the colors except blue. and then the water particle prism thing. something about the sun. makes the rainbow. dont remember. sorry. learned it a long time ago

Answer 24

The sky it blue because the thick air reflect the colour of the sea!

Answer 25

what if you followed a rainbow for the pot of gold and you went to the wrong side

Answer 26

light!!  

Answer 27

this is a very good question

but the reason the sky is blue is because A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.  When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.  

the other question is also a very good question

this is what makes the rainbow

The traditional description of the rainbow is that it is made up of seven colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Actually, the rainbow is a whole continuum of colors from red to violet and even beyond the colors that the eye can see.

The colors of the rainbow arise from two basic facts:

Sunlight is made up of the whole range of colors that the eye can detect. The range of sunlight colors, when combined, looks white to the eye. This property of sunlight was first demonstrated by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666.

Light of different colors is refracted by different amounts when it passes from one medium (air, for example) into another (water or glass, for example).

hopes this helps

Answer 28

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

  

As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.

Answer 29

who knows

Answer 30

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Answer 31

The sky is blue because of the atmosphere. The atmosphere contains a mixture of gas molecules and other materials surrounding the earth, and in the hemispherical shape it forms a blue colour.

The colours of the rainbow are formed by the colour spectrum, which is the compositions of white light.