A fogbow forms the same way a rainbow does, light bends, reflects, and scatters through water droplets, but there is a key ...
"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" sings Kermit the Frog in a song (about rainbows) called "Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie." And it's not just songs that feature rainbows ...
Curiosity, a set of NASA's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...
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 ...
Before its ruling concerning same-sex marriages, the Fukuoka District Court ordered visitors to remove or cover up anything showing rainbow colors, the symbol for the LGBT rights movement. The ...
Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...
T he sky isn't just blue by chance. I t takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. I t happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering ...