The result is equally scattered 'white' light from the sun and therefore we see white clouds. ... The clouds may be semi-transparent which allows the background blue sky to be seen through the cloud.

When the Sun is high in the sky, it appears its true colour: white. ... you can see the blue sky fade away to a black background as it climbs above the atmosphere.

Since the sun's evening light travels through much more of our atmosphere than when the sun is higher in the sky, by the time it reaches us it has lost much of its blue component through Rayleigh ...

When the Sun is high in the sky, this is why the entire sky is blue. It appears a brighter blue the farther away from the Sun you look, because there's more atmosphere to see (and therefore more ...

So the sky isn’t blue, at least not always. It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow, and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from ...