Is that a rainbow cloud?Sky-watchers in Salinas spotted a colorful object in the sky at 1:40 p.m. Friday, and some called KSBW's newsroom to ask, "What is it?"I asked KSBW's lead weather ...

On Tuesday, several people sent us photos of a rainbow-like “cloud” in the sky. The colored patch of light is called a sun dog, or a sundog. The atmospheric phenomenon creates bright sp… ...

The colorful phenomenon is what's known as a sun halo and it is caused by ice crystals in the clouds, ABC reports. Sunlight refracts through the ice crystals at a 22-degree angle, causing the effect.

The clouds' ice crystals act the same way crystals in a sparkly bracelet or ring might. When light hits the crystals' facets at a certain angle, it is separated out into all the colors in the spectrum ...

A layer of clouds over the Pacific Ocean served as the backdrop for what looks like a double rainbow as Nasa's Terra satellite hurtled over on June 21. But it's actually a high-altitude light show ...

It’s kind of cloudy, but you glance out the window to see whether there’s anything interesting on the ground. Instead, you see this — three rainbow rings hugging your plane’s shadow.

A stunning rainbow-colored cloud of gas surrounds a pair of stars that duked it out a few hundred years ago. ... Cosmic rings reveal new planet being born| Space photo of the day for June 11, 2025 .

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Joyce, You likely saw a 22-degree halo, an optical effect produced by a shallow layer of cirrus cloud composed of well-formed but poorly aligned hexagonal ice crystals.

A colorful apparition materialized over Washington this week; the rainbow-tinted specter appeared and vanished in the space of just minutes. The rare light show, produced when sunlight hits high ...

Rainbow cloud found in space by astronomers. Published. 7 February 2020. comments. 7 Comments. ... The bright colours are caused by the two stars spitting out expanding rings of gas.

A unique type of formation called a "fire rainbow," also known as iridescent clouds, was photographed in the clouds above South Florida on July 31.