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Have you ever looked outside just before the sun disappears and noticed the sky suddenly turning orange, red or even pink?
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It can look almost unreal, especially when the clouds catch the sunlight and seem to glow.
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But why does the sky change color at sunset when it looks blue for most of the day?
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The answer has to do with sunlight, Earth's atmosphere, and the way different colors of light travel through the air.
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And surprisingly, the beautiful red sunset we see is created by the same atmosphere that gives us our familiar blue daytime sky.
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So, today we'll uncover, why does the sky turn red at sunset?
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What exactly happens to sunlight as the sun moves toward the horizon?
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Let's take a closer look, right here, on History of Simple Things.
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To understand a sunset, we first need to understand sunlight.
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Although sunlight appears white to our eyes, it is actually made up of many different colors of visible light.
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You can think of sunlight as a mixture of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet light.
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Each color has a different wavelength.
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Red light has a longer wavelength, while blue and violet light have much shorter wavelengths.
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When sunlight travels through space, these different colors generally move together.
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But once sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere, things become more interesting.
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The atmosphere contains countless tiny molecules, especially nitrogen and oxygen.
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When sunlight passes through these molecules, some of the light is scattered in different directions.
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And this scattering is the key to understanding both blue skies and red sunsets.
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During most of the day, sunlight reaches us after traveling through a relatively short path through the atmosphere.
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The shorter wavelengths, particularly blue and violet, are scattered much more strongly than the longer wavelengths, such as red and orange.
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This process is called Rayleigh scattering.
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So instead of all the sunlight traveling directly from the sun to our eyes, some of the blue light gets scattered across the sky.
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Our eyes are more sensitive to blue than violet, and some violet light is also absorbed or distributed differently in the atmosphere.
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As a result, the sky generally appears blue.
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This is why, when you look away from the sun on a clear day, you're not seeing empty blue space.
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You're seeing sunlight that has been scattered through the atmosphere.
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But as sunset approaches, the path sunlight takes through the atmosphere changes dramatically.
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As Earth rotates, the sun appears to move lower and lower toward the horizon.
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The important thing is that the sun isn't simply becoming weaker because it's farther away.
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Instead, sunlight has to travel through much more atmosphere before reaching your eyes.
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Imagine shining a flashlight through a short layer of fog.
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Most of the light can pass through fairly easily.
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Now, imagine sending that same flashlight through a much longer layer of fog.
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More of the light gets scattered or absorbed along the way.
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Something similar happens during sunset.
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When the sun is high overhead, its light takes a relatively short route through the atmosphere.
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But when the sun is near the horizon, its light travels through a much longer stretch of air.
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That longer journey changes which colors are most likely to reach your eyes directly.
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As sunlight travels through this much longer atmospheric path, the shorter blue and violet wavelengths encounter many more air molecules.
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Because they scatter so easily, much of that blue light is redirected away from the original path of the sunlight.
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What remains traveling more directly toward us contains proportionally more of the longer wavelengths.
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These include yellow, orange, and especially red light.
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That's why the setting sun can appear yellow, orange, or deep red, while the surrounding sky can take on warm colors.
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The atmosphere hasn't suddenly produced red light.
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The red light was already part of the sunlight.
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The atmosphere simply changes how much of each color reaches our eyes.
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In a way, a sunset is like a natural filter created by Earth's atmosphere.
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If red light is what survives the longest atmospheric journey, why don't sunsets always look completely red?
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That's because several colors can still reach our eyes depending on atmospheric conditions and the position of the sun.
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Orange and yellow wavelengths are longer than blue and scatter less easily, so they can continue traveling through the atmosphere atmosphere.
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This mixture can create the familiar golden and orange colors we often see before sunset.
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Sometimes the sky can even become pink, purple, or magenta.
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These colors can appear when different wavelengths of scattered and direct sunlight mix together,
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particularly when the atmosphere contains clouds or particles that scatter light in different ways.
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The exact colors depend on what is happening in the atmosphere at that particular moment.
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That's one reason every sunset can look slightly different.
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A sunset is a simple demonstration of how light interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
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During the day, blue light scatters strongly, giving us a blue sky.
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But as the sun approaches the horizon, its light travels through much more atmosphere.
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More blue light is scattered away while the longer red and orange wavelengths become more visible.
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Clouds, dust, and other particles can then add even more color, creating the beautiful sunsets we see.
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So, why does the sky turn red at sunset?
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It's because sunlight travels through much more atmosphere when the sun is near the horizon.
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The blue light gets scattered away, leaving more red, orange, and yellow light for us to see.
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So the next time you see a red sunset,
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remember, you're watching sunlight interact with Earth's atmosphere in a beautiful everyday display of science.
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experience.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה B2 מבוסס על הסרטון “Why Does the Sky Turn Red at Sunset?”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: atmosphere, sunlight, blue, sunset, color. בסרטון הזה יש 67 משפטים ו-937 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 7:45. הדובר שומר על קצב יציב של כ-121 מילים בדקה, קצב נוח לתרגול Shadowing. רק 78% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
14 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| sunset שם עצם | /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/ | שקיעה |
| wavelength שם עצם | /ˈweɪvˌlɛŋ(k)θ/ | אורך גל, אֹרֶךְ גַּל |
| violet שם עצם | /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/ | סיגל |
| horizon שם עצם | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | אופק \ אֹפֶק |
| molecule שם עצם | /ˈmɑ.lɪ.kjul/ | מוֹלֵקוּלָה |
| flashlight שם עצם | /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/ | פָּנָס |
| absorb פועל | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | ספג |
| particle שם עצם | /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/ | חֶלְקִיק, גַרגִיר |
| depend פועל | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | היה תלוי |
| nitrogen שם עצם | /ˈnaɪ.tɹə.d͡ʒən/ | חַנְקָן |
| distribute פועל | /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/ | חילק |
| countless שם תואר | /ˈkaʊntləs/ | אין ספור, אינספור |
| disappear פועל | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | נֶעֱלַם |
| shine פועל | /ʃaɪn/ | זָרַח |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | is created · is actually made · is scattered |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | Have you ever looked · has been scattered · hasn't suddenly produced |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-7 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו you're, don't, hasn't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, proportionally /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənəli/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/, shine /ʃaɪn/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/, proportionally /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənəli/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: wavelength /ˈweɪvˌlɛŋ(k)θ/, weaker /ˈwikɚ/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: scatter /ˈskætɚ/, atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, interact /ɪn.təˈɹækt/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: horizon /həˈɹaɪ.zən/, atmospheric /ˌætməsˈfɛɹɪk/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/, interact /ɪn.təˈɹækt/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט במהירות רגילה, וחזרו על כל משפט עד שהקצב שלכם תואם את הדובר.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו sunset, wavelength, violet.
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