Does smog make for beautiful sunsets?
There aren’t too many positives to be found in air pollution. It’s unhealthy, unsightly and damaging to the planet that we hope to spend a lot more time on. But could it be that there’s actually an upside here? Might the sky-blocking phenomenon known as smog actually enhance sunsets? Sunspot Image Gallery Most people think the answer is yes — that smoggy cities like Los Angeles and Beijing, with hazy skies most of the time, at least get to have extra-brilliant sunsets to cough at as a result of that haziness. As it turns out, those people are mostly wrong. It all starts with the science of sunset — how those colors come to splash across the sky as the sun goes down. When the sun is high in the sky, its light travels a relatively short path throug
