Idalia’s clouds made a pretty sunset. You guys knocked it out of the park with your pictures, and we wanted to give you a shoutout.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.

How many sunset sky photos are there on your phone? Hundreds? It might happen every day, but the sight of the sun sinking below an ocean horizon followed by a sky full of reds, oranges ...

And because blue wavelengths are the shortest, they get scattered more, resulting in a blue sky. During a sunset, however, light scattering works differently. The sun’s light has a lot further ...

While sunset hues are orange and red because blue light is scattered as it passes through more of the atmosphere, Tuesday’s wildfire smoke enhanced them by scattering the light even more.