At sunset, the sun appears red (the blue light has been scattered out of that image, too), so the cells of the eye that detect red are overloaded and incapable of registering weaker red signals.
Numerous buildings are adorned with murals and a sun on a red and black background -- the markings of the Aboriginal flag.
Dr Adams has found that there is one chance in 100, 000 that this would cause the earth to be ejected from the solar system before the sun becomes a red giant.
To make the fight fair, he decrees that the match should take place on his home planet, Bodace, which is orbited by a red sun (which temporarily robs Superman of his powers).
The sky will be a deep, vivid red because the sun will, in essence, have turned into a huge red cloud.
Next to them, a young couple lock in embrace and watch how the sliding sun paints the sea red.
The Sun will then become a red giant, swamping and obliterating Mercury.
Each is home to half a dozen lolling bathers, their blissed-out, parboiled faces as red as the setting sun behind.
But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.
The four hour drive south from Marrakech winds through the Atlas mountains and tiny, dusty Berber villages (although many, surprisingly, not too tiny for an ATM) showered with blowing red sand under a blinding sun.
This time, the rocks were silhouetted against the red and oranges of the dipping sun.
Mountains tower over valleys lying deep in snow, their cathedral-spire peaks turning red in the rays of the setting sun.
Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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Amid waves of grass in red and green and the hush of the tide, the sun set over the hills.
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Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays.
After that it is expected to become a red giant, as the hydrogen that presently comprises it is exhausted and the sun switches to burning helium instead.
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"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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Nantucket red, for example, has the look of a red shirt that has been washed countless times and is faded to a light peachy pink from years of sun exposure, he says.
The next day in the five-million acre Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, the sun burned bright, giving an electric glow to the throbbing canopy where parakeets swooped, sloths napped and tamarind and red howler monkeys played.
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