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Kiara Singh

The red color in the sky at sunrise and sunset is caused by scattering. As the sun is low on the horizon, sunlight passes through more of the Earth’s atmosphere. Shorter wavelengths (blue and violet) scatter out, leaving the longer ...

Kiara Singh

The stars appear higher in the sky than they actually are due to atmospheric refraction. As starlight enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it bends towards the normal because the atmosphere’s density increases closer to the surface. This bending makes the stars ...