The technical term for this is an iridescence cloud. This happens when sunlight hits tiny ice crystals or water droplets near ...

Tuesday evening, if you happened to be looking up, you may have seen some rainbow-esqe clouds high in the sky.

Rainbows are often seen as symbols of luck, and if you spot one, consider yourself lucky. That’s because a few things need to align, both in terms of weather and physics: a little rain, some sunshine, ...

Using an enormous floodlight—a “Batman light,” Smilde calls it—the prism successfully splashed a wide rainbow over the side of a barn about 330 feet away.

In order to see a rainbow you'll need two ingredients: sunlight and raindrops. Prism of water Sunlight is a mixture of colors. When it passes through a glass prism, some of the light is bent, or ...

Rainbows form when sunlight shines through raindrops. The water acts as a prism, separating the white light into the colors of the rainbow. In rainbow clouds, ice crystals act as the prism and ...