Texas skywatchers will get a chance to witness the moon turn blood red. On the evening between March 13 and March 14, the ...

Mark your calendars for the rare total lunar eclipse, as the Moon, Earth, and Sun align to create one of the most ...

When the Sun is near the horizon, its light passes through much more of the atmosphere to reach the Earth's surface than when ...

Ever wonder why the sky is blue, vs. say red, orange or purple? An effect called Rayleigh Scattering is part of the reason we see only blue, despite it all starting with a rainbow of colors.

If Earth had no atmosphere like the Moon there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...

It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first wrote about it in 1871. The white appearance of sunlight reaching the ...

It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering. But that same ...

I t happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first wrote about it in 1871. Light breaks over the horizon at sunrise ...

That process is what physicists call scattering. It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: ...

The annual variation of the view geometry (scattering angle) is illustrated in Figure 2. For most pixels, excluding those near the edge of disk at extreme view angles, the scattering angle approaches ...

Abstract: We examined the influence of germanium concentration in fiber core on distributed axial strain sensitivity in optical frequency-domain reflectometry based on Rayleigh scattering for ...