Okay so there’s lots of particles in the atmosphere, the sun shines white light, the light gets scattered and depending on the angle, the sky gets its color. But like, how?
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The color is not dependent on the angle. It is the case that air scatter blue light more then red. So light from the sun when it is low in passes through more air so primary red light reaches you.
You can compare the effect to waves and som object in the water. A object in the water scatter waves more if the size of the waves are closer to the same size as the object. A twig has minimal effect on hug waves but a large effect on small ripples on the surface.
The same way in air where molecules are smaller then the wavelength if visible light. Blue light has shorter wavelength then red so it get scattered more.
If you have larger particles then the wavelength of visible light red light will be scattered mor then blu and you get a red sky. the smoke from forests fires is a example and the result is that the sky will be red.
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