Visible Light Waves Beck Bray & Patrick Meyer 01.27.01 Visible light waves are the only electromagnetic waves we can see. We see these waves as the colors of the rainbow. Each color has a different wavelength. Red has the longest wavelength and violet has the shortest wavelength. When all the waves are seen together, they make white light.     When white light shines through a prism or through water vapor like this rainbow, the white light is broken apart into the colors of the visible light spectrum.   ©2001 NASAkids.com , Science@NASA  Beck Bray & Patrick Meyer ©2000 The Aurora Collection, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use. Site Development by: Interactive Multimedia. Inc.