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THE phenomenon of 'divergent' beams of sunlight is known to everyone. The illusion of divergence of the beams is so good that one has forcibly to remind himself that they are really parallel.

Most of us have seen bright beams of light radiating from the sun around sunrise or sunset, but how do these rays form, and what makes them so unique?