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Bright and dazzling, waves radiating rainbow colors sweep across the northern skies of Sweden, displaying beautiful hues. Known as "nacreous clouds" or "mother-of-pearl clouds," these clouds are a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering. But that same ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning twilight images of Martian clouds, revealing iridescent red and green tinges. These ...

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A fogbow forms the same way a rainbow does, light bends, reflects, and scatters through water droplets, but there is a key ...

It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way ... light because our eyes are more sensitive to it and the sun emits more blue than violet energy. We also see the Rayleigh ...

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Fire rainbows require specific conditions: cirrus clouds and sunlight at least 58° high in the sky. They're most visible in ...