This increased distance causes even more blue light to scatter, allowing the red and yellow hues to pass directly to your eyes. The color of the sky depends on the composition of the atmosphere.

The seven BE-4 engines roared — sending awed spectators into screams and cheers — as Blue Origin's New ... empty launch pad. "It was crazy how much of the sky got lit up.

The sky isn't just blue by chance. It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after ...