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The colour of the sun is reddish during the sun rise and sunset. Explain why ?

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(i) At sunrise and , sunset , the light rays from the Sun have to travel a larger distance in the atmosphere than at noon.
(ii) The most of the blue lights are scattered away and only the red light which gets least scattered reaches us . Therefore , the colour of the Sun is red at Sun is red at sunrise and sunset.
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