Sunset, Banffshire (Image: Christine Webster) “Blue light doesn’t travel particularly well through the air, which is why the sky is blue," he said. "It gets scattered across the top of the ...

There's a strange orange glow in the night sky, but nobody is quite sure what it is or where it is coming from. There's been widespread speculation as to its origin, with witnesses taking to ...

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 ...