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Do the sun refract when they enter the earth atmosphere​

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Answer:Sunlight refracts as it travels from the vacuum of space into Earth's atmosphere. As its wavefronts graze the upper atmosphere, light bends downward (Figure 4). This means we see the Sun higher in the sky than it actually is.

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