Amazing photo: ‘Fire rainbow’ is stunner (Photo: Marnie Levy Williams / WPTV) So-called “fire rainbows” are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning. They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water droplets of nearly uniform size, according to a release by NASA. These clouds diffract, or bend, light in a similar manner, which separates out light into different wavelengths, or colors. Read the complete story.
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Amazing photo: ‘Fire rainbow’ is stunner

(Photo: Marnie Levy Williams / WPTV)

So-called “fire rainbows” are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning.

They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water droplets of nearly uniform size, according to a release by NASA. These clouds diffract, or bend, light in a similar manner, which separates out light into different wavelengths, or colors.

Read the complete story.

Source: MSNBC

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