The Sun is the brightest thing in our whole sky.
It shines so brightly that it lights up the whole day. We must never look straight at it, because it is too bright for our eyes.
💡 Sky — Fun Facts
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Some clouds float higher up than airplanes fly.
Wispy clouds can drift about 10 kilometres above the ground. That is even higher than many planes go.
You can sometimes see the Moon in the daytime sky.
The Moon does not only come out at night. On many days you can spot it as a pale shape up in the blue sky.
Fog is really a cloud that forms close to the ground.
When the air near the ground gets cool and damp, fog appears. Walking through fog feels like being inside a cloud.
At sunset the sky can turn orange, pink, and red.
As the Sun sinks low, its light travels through more air. That air paints the sky with warm, glowing colours.
Clouds are made of tiny water drops floating in the air.
Millions of little drops gather together to make one cloud. When the drops get heavy, they fall down as rain.
The sky looks blue because sunlight spreads out in the air.
Sunlight is made of many colours mixed together. The air scatters the blue light most, so the sky looks blue.