Why do sunsets and sunrises look so different? Isn’t it technically the same thing?
In: Earth Science
The color of the sky is from a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. The simplest explanation is that the sky color is affected by the angle of the light. The way you can hold a prism in a light beam and make rainbows on the wall or other colors. Gases in our atmosphere do the same thing with light from the sun. Change the angle and you change the color. That is why you have different colors at different times of day and different times of year.
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