almost everyone loves a rainbow rainbows are an example of visible light welcome to moomoomath and science invisible light when you see a rainbow or other colors you are viewing visible light visible light is the narrow range of wavelengths and frequencies found within the electromagnetic spectrum it is found between infrared waves and ultraviolet waves visible light has wavelengths of around 400 and 700 nanometers when the sun rises and sunlight brightens the day you are seeing white light white light is the visible light of all wavelengths light from light bulbs is also made up of white light white light is made up of different wavelengths which results in us seeing different colors if white light passes through a prism you can see these different colors interesting science fact sir isaac newton described how white light is made up of different colors in 1671 in his book optics an easy way to remember the colors of visible light is to use the name roy g biv which stands for red orange yellow green blue indigo violet red light is found at the lower end of the visible spectrum it has a longer wavelength of about 740 nanometers light in the middle of the spectrum is seen as green and light at the upper end of the spectrum which has a wavelength of around 380 nanometers is seen as violet colors containing only one wavelength are also called pure colors and they are red green and blue all other colors that we perceive are mixtures of these colors red light has the lowest frequency and photon energy along with the longest wavelength and violet has the highest frequency in photon energy along with the shortest wavelength here's a nice chart summarizing wavelength frequency photon energy and wavelength thanks for watching and remember kindness multiplies kindness