What Does Sunset On an Alien World Look Like?

Part of the color comes from what you have on the atmosphere, as different molecules absorb at different wavelengths and, as a consequence, only let go everything else. It is also due to the light the star itself emits.

But the most important part is how thick the atmosphere is. There is a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering [wikipedia.org] that correlates how much the light is scattered the wavelength. It basically says that the thicker the atmosphere, the more light is scattered and the more you see the reds, as opposed

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