Eshal Zeeshan
2 weeks ago
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📸 Rayleigh's Horizon — Rayleigh Scattering
The sky in this photo is a live demonstration of Rayleigh scattering. Sunlight looks white but is actually every colour mixed together, and when it hits the gas molecules in our atmosphere, the shorter wavelengths (blue and violet) get scattered far more strongly than the longer ones (red and orange). At sunset, the sun sits low, so its light has to travel through a much longer stretch of atmosphe…
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