Ever wonder why the sky is blue, vs. say red, orange or purple? An effect called Rayleigh Scattering is part of the reason we ...

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" sings Kermit the Frog in a song (about rainbows) called "Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie." And it's not just songs that feature rainbows ...

This color cylinder can represent exactly the same information as a three-integer RGB value can. Every visible color is somewhere on the surface (or inside!) the cylinder. If you took a cross ...

Lexi Hannah's paintings use every color in the rainbow — quite literally. The artist, who specializes in watercolors and gouache, developed a vivid way to create art by dripping a rainbow of ...

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 ...

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.