Tuesday 17 September 2019

The rainbow rings seen in this image








The rainbow rings seen in this image of the moon are the aura or crown. If the moon falls on the ground through thin layers of cloud, such a ring can emerge. This phenomenon is the result of the quantum mechanical process of diffraction of light by tiny droplets of the same size in water, in the thin layer of (transparent) cloud that lies between the light source and us. Since...

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