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The 44 pages that link to Rayleigh scattering, each with the reason it gives.

• PolarizationRelated: Its angular pattern produces strongly polarized skylight away from the Sun.

• Atmospheric perspectiveRelated: Scattered blue light contributes to the cool cast often seen in distant landscapes.

• Atmospheric windowRelated: It reduces transmission most strongly toward the blue and ultraviolet.

• PolarimetryRelated: Its polarization pattern helps explain polarized skylight and reveals scattering geometry.

• TwilightRelated: It redirects sunlight through the atmosphere after the Sun has set.

• Linear polarizationRelated: Scattered light can be strongly linearly polarized at particular viewing angles.

• Optical tweezersRelated: Its dipole approximation explains optical forces on particles far smaller than the laser wavelength.

• SunsetRelated: At sunset, sunlight travels farther through air, scattering more blue light out of the direct beam.

• Transmission spectroscopyRelated: A blueward slope in a spectrum can reveal scattering by small atmospheric particles.

• Blue Ridge MountainsRelated: Atmospheric scattering contributes to the blue haze over the mountains.

• VisibilityRelated: Molecular scattering contributes to atmospheric extinction, especially along long sight lines.

• Solar radiationRelated: It redirects shorter-wavelength sunlight and contributes to the blue daytime sky.

• Atmospheric opticsRelated: It explains the blue daytime sky and the reddening of sunlight near the horizon.

• Atmospheric extinctionRelated: Air molecules scatter blue light more strongly, contributing to wavelength-dependent extinction.

• Blue eyesRelated: Shorter wavelengths scatter more strongly in the lightly pigmented iris, contributing to its blue appearance.

• Pale Blue DotRelated: Scattered sunlight created the bright streak across which Earth appears.

• Optical isolatorRelated: Backscattered light in fibers can return toward a source that an isolator protects.

• Reflection nebulaRelated: It helps explain why reflection nebulae often look blue.

• Blue hourRelated: It helps explain why twilight skies can appear blue after direct sunlight fades.

• SunlightRelated: It scatters shorter-wavelength sunlight and helps make the daytime sky blue.

• Eye colorRelated: Scattering within the iris helps produce blue appearances despite little blue pigment.

• Belt of VenusRelated: It helps explain why the twilight sky glows red and pink.

• Diffuse sky radiationRelated: Air molecules scatter shorter wavelengths strongly, creating much of the blue diffuse light in a clear sky.

• HD 189733 bRelated: Scattering in the atmosphere contributes to the planet’s blue appearance.

• Sky blueRelated: It preferentially scatters blue sunlight through clear air, producing the color’s namesake appearance.