also known as Lord Rayleigh. Besides making the sky look blue, it is also the reason why the Sun looks yellow during the day even though sunlight is white. When theSun is high in the sky, the light has totravel a shorter distance through the atmosphere. This means most...
The visible light spectrum is so named because this is the light we can see. The visible light spectrum contains all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. In fact, rainbows exist in nature when water in the atmosphere refracts, or splits, the light ...
Secondly, during very large storms, there is another kind of aurora that is predominantly red and which occurs at lower latitudes. As Earth's atmosphere has more nitrogen compared to oxygen, why aren't blue/purple auroras that are caused by nitrogen the most common? The aurora occurs so ...
Second, it is three-dimensional. The belly of it bulges out towards us in such pronounced fashion that I almost feel I can reach out and touch it… The vague reddish-yellow of the sun’s corona, the blanched white of earthshine, and the pure black of the starstudded surrounding sky ...
You need to be of a certain age to understand why so many people in Hollywood are caring about the possible closing down of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .For the past 40 years, its output has been good, but now it is on the ropes, with debts of $ 3.7 billion and
The 2024 hurricane season is expected to have above-normal activity, according toNOAA, thanks to La Nina conditions and warmer-than-average ocean temperatures. And there have already been several storms this season, includingHurricane Beryland Hurricane Ernesto. Right now, Hurricane Hel...
The Sun affects our perception of beauty. When people talk of the “golden hour”, that time just before the Sun sets, it’s a real thing. The Sun isn’t actually yellow or orange or even red; it’s all the colours mixed together. When the Sun rises or sets in the sky, the shor...
Sednew did not heed the warnings. "I really like storms, and when else are you going to be in Antarctica? I wanted to witness it, so I went out past the signs," Sednew, 26, recently recounted. The forces of nature were stronger than he expected. As the wind pushed against him, ...
Why is that? Why do I have that fear? My wife doesn’t even notice bad storms. In fact, she is the exact opposite. She loves storms. As a child, her parents would hear a siren and go back to reading a book. Once, there was a horrendous downpour and she decided to go outside ...
I suggest one take the above scriptures and ask oneself woe is this then what occurred with Bravo company during the Iraq War and how they were stopped dead cold by a series of storms that came up from nowhere and it should be? As Fox tells it: ...