Walk to the sun
As a ray of white sunlight travels through the atmosphere to an observer, some of the colours are scattered out of the beam by air molecules and airborne particles, changing the final colour of the beam the viewer sees. Because the shorter wavelength components, such as blue and green, scatter more strongly, these colours are preferentially removed from the beam. At sunrise and sunset when the path through the atmosphere is longer, the blue and green components are removed almost completely leaving the longer wavelength orange and red hues we see at those times. The remaining reddened sunlight can then be scattered by cloud droplets and other relatively large particles to light up the horizon red and orange.
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