From a helicopter, you can see a circle rainbow with Molokai Island in the background. Credit: Steven Businger. When you see a rainbow, you’re only viewing a small slice of the picture. That signature ...

NASA’s PUNCH Spacecraft Captured a Dreamy ‘Cosmic Rainbow’ in Scattered Dust Particles Against the Starry Sky. The mysteries of space had infinite possibilities for surprising experts, and ...

The third-order (tertiary) rainbow (left), accompanied by the fourth-order (quaternary) rainbow (right). They appear on the sunward side of the sky, at approximately 40° and 45°, respectively ...

Video shows the colourful weather phenomenon stretch across the sky with Lake Michigan in the background Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

From Bettendorf to Hillsdale, these clouds were quite spectacular, especially given the dark blue background with the sky. Why rainbow clouds form These clouds form because of something we call ...

Fire rainbows tend to form when thin, wispy cirrus clouds are high in the sky, as they were on Tuesday, about 15,000 feet above the ground, Johnson said. But they also could develop with even ...

AN instance of this phenomenon, which is referred to as rare in NATURE (vol. vii. p. 68), occurred to-day, Feb. 22, 4.30 P.M. The sky was almost quite clear and a light shower of rain falling ...