As light from the Sun travels through the atmosphere, most colors of the light are able to reach the surface without a problem. However, blue light from the Sun has a shorter wavelength and as a result is just the right size to knock into the tiny dust particles in the air and bounce off them in all directions, making the sky look blue. We call this Rayleigh scattering.
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