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WHY IS THE SKY BLUE I see skies of blue and clouds of white, Louis Armstrong crooned in his 1968 song What a Wonderful World. And he probably did, given that his song is an ode to optimism. European researchers have discovered that light from the blue part of the spectrum influences the emotions in a positive way, making us more responsive to emotional stimuli and more adaptable to emotional challenges [source: Opfocus]. But we digress. The reason the sky appears blue is because of an effect called scattering. Sunlight has to pass through the Earths atmosphere, which is filled with gases and p