Light Trivia : Color of sky and sunset

Sky why blue?, sunset why red ?



Among sunbeams the blue light of short wavelength hits the atmospheric molecules and it is scattered throughout the sky so that the sky looks blue.
Because the sun inclines to the west in the evening, the atmospheric layer where a sunbeam reaches to the ground gets thicker.

The blue light of short wavelength does not reach far.

The sky where only the red light of long wavelength is scattered is reflected in the eyes so that the sky of the sunset looks red.