August's full 'Sturgeon Moon' rises this weekend, putting on a spectacular lunar light show as it leaps above the ...

Why is the sky blue on Earth, yet space appears pitch black? This video uncovers the science behind one of nature’s most ...

Mark your calendar on the 7th of September if you wish to see the 2025 blood moon! While it may sound like something out of a ...

We also see the Rayleigh effect at play in: - Sunsets where the sky is red. Light has to pass through a larger part of the atmosphere when the sun is lower on the horizon. Red, orange and yellow ...

This is also called Rayleigh Scattering, and it was coined in the 1800s by Lord Rayleigh, who first noticed the phenomena. In a normal atmosphere, this scattering leads to the blue color we ...

Rayleigh scattering is what makes Earth’s skies blue by scattering the shorter (bluer) wavelengths of sunlight. Because WASP-79b doesn’t seem to have this phenomenon, the daytime sky would ...

If there were no scattering, the sky would be dark like it is on the Moon, which does not have an atmosphere.A rainbow represents all the different components that make up sunlight.