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Yup. Light in the shade is bluer than direct sunlight. This is because our atmosphere diffuses blue light (which is why the sky looks blue) -- so blue light comes from every direction of the sky, and other wavelengths of light come only from the direction of the sun. Anything in the shade (shadowed from the sun) receives only that diffuse light from the rest of the sky -- which is in fact bluish.


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