Can someone explain why sun looks red during sunset and white at noon
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THIS is because of Atmospheric refraction During sunset Red Color has more Frequency and it travel more so it looks Red during sunset
Sun looks white at noon but because it has to travel less distance to reach us . During this journey only a little of blue colour is scattered . Since the light coming from
the overhead sun has almost all its component colours in the right proportion , the sun appears white during noon
Sun looks red at sunset because when sun is near the horizon sunlight has to travel great distance to reach us. During this journey most of the shorter wavelength blue colour is scattered away. Therefore sun consists only longer wavelength red colour. This the reason for the sun appearing red during sunset
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Kishore