Colors of Light

Colors of Light

White light, like sunlight, is made up of many colors. These colors become visible when light is split or bent, such as when it passes through a prism or water droplets in the air. This bending, called refraction, separates the light into a rainbow of colors—red, orange, yellow, ...

Why does a rainbow appear after it rains? It's all because of the way light behaves.

Visible light is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that our eyes can see.

It has seven main colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Each color of light has a different wavelength. Red has the longest wavelength, and...