With another overnight and early morning round of showers and storms in southeast Nebraska, there was just enough clearing to ...

International artist Yvette Mattern aims to light the sky with hope, despite last-minute hurdles A vibrant rainbow of laser ...

Authorities charged an 18-year-old suspect with murder following a Friday night shooting in Midlothian that left two ...

Sen. Mark Warner wants to rein in a 218-year old law granting presidents sweeping power to send troops to suppress protests, a measure President Donald Trump has said he might ...

The light you finally see is reddish orange. Violet light has an even shorter wavelength than blue light: It scatters even more than blue light does. So why isn’t the sky violet? Because there’s just ...

Blue light has a shorter wavelength, due to which it’s scattered more easily by the tiny molecules in the air. This scattering, known as Rayleigh scattering, is why we see a blue sky during the day.

Among the first to arrive is a vibrant, rainbow-colored view of the sky, along with the very first pictures from two of the mission’s unique instruments. PUNCH, short for Polarimeter to Unify the ...

NASA's newest spacecraft aimed at studying the sun have captured a colorful "rainbow" in the warm glow of zodiacal light observed above Earth. The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and ...

The sun’s location is marked with a star symbol. Other stars in the sky appear white because they are mostly unpolarized compared to the 7% polarization of the zodiacal light.

In the full image below, you can see a rainbow of zodiacal light, with the position of the sun marked by a star. The image uses color to represent features of the light: the hue of the light ...