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the daily mood ring of a planet that never settles on a color
means the expanse of atmosphere and space seen overhead from the ground, where weather and light play out.
from From Old Norse 'ský,' meaning cloud — the Vikings brought the word to England, where it gradually shifted from naming the clouds to naming the whole vault above. The native Old English word for sky was 'heofon' (heaven), which lost the daytime job and kept the spiritual one. So in English, the cloud quietly swallowed the firmament.
- blue reason
- Blue light scatters most, painting the dome above
- no edge
- It has no boundary, just thinning air fading to space
- sunset trick
- Red sunsets are blue light scattered away by distance
- alien skies
- Mars sunsets glow eerie blue, not red
- falling pieces
- Tiny meteor dust constantly rains down from it
aurora borealis — natural light display in earth's sky, visible at latitudes above 65° in northern hemisphere
perseid meteor shower — annual celestial event peaking in august with up to 100 meteors per hour visible from earth
great red spot — persistent anticyclonic storm in jupiter's atmosphere, larger than earth, observed since 1664