How to Use Rayleigh scattering in a Sentence

Rayleigh scattering

noun

• This process — called Rayleigh scattering — scatters shorter-wavelength blue light and bends longer-wavelength red light toward the moon.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• This effect, known as Rayleigh scattering, is the same reason that the sky takes on magnificent shades of red and orange around sunset.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• This effect, known as Rayleigh scattering, gives moonrises and sunsets their warm, glowing colors.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• The lunar disk may also appear to take on a yellow-orange hue in the hour following moonrise, thanks to Rayleigh scattering.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• This happens because its light passes through more of Earth's atmosphere, which scatters away the shorter blue wavelengths and lets the longer red tones pass through, an effect known as Rayleigh scattering.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• The distinctive red of the moon in Dury's image had nothing to do with the eclipse itself — which had occurred hours earlier — but rather resulted from an atmospheric phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Shorter blue wavelengths of sunlight are scattered away — in much the same way Rayleigh scattering turns the sky red at sunset — while longer orange and red wavelengths pass more easily, only to get bent, or refracted onto the moon's disk, turning it a muted, bloody crimson.
  — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
• As the moon slipped into the deepest part of our planet's shadow — a period known as totality — a phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering saw the moon adopt a bloody red hue, as sunlight scattered by Earth's atmosphere was bent onto the lunar surface.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• This climactic period will last 58 minutes, during which the lunar disk will adopt a dramatic red hue, as a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering filters out the shorter blue wavelengths of the sun's light, while allowing longer red ones to fall on the lunar surface.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026