At first glance, Candy could be mistaken for polished brass. But iridescence is mutable — shifting with the light, the angle, the room. This interior design trend is a living surface ...

The latest offering from Zion Williamson and Jordan Brand comes in the form of an iridescent blue Jordan Zion 4.

It was a rare instance of cloud iridescence, which is usually at its most visually appealing when occurring in tandem with strong thunderstorms. The storm in question Tuesday night formed over the ...

How does iridescence work? From rainbow bubbles to beautiful birds, bugs, and gemstones. Why is a soap bubble rainbow? What makes an oil slick beautiful? Iridescent colors, which transform ...

This phenomenon is called cloud iridescence. This occurs when sunlight shines through water droplets or ice crystals that make up the cloud in such a way that light scatters and reflects the ...

A stunning cloud iridescence created a bright silhouette above the mountains in the Philippines. Footage shows the optical illusion shimmering in the sky in Davao del Sur. Pastel blue, reddish ...

This optical phenomenon is known as cloud iridescence. To form this feature, we first need a thin layer of high to mid-level clouds, such as cirrocumulus clouds like we see in the photo above.

This comes from the way that light bounces off different arrangements of cell structures. Iridescence–that rainbow shimmer coming off of a soap bubble–is an example of structural color.

But what exactly is that? "Cloud iridescence forms when the water droplets or ice crystals in the cloud diffract the light around the outside of the droplet, as opposed to bending the light ...

What our viewers captured is what is known as cloud iridescence. Scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explained how the iridescence happens in a blog post.

These small fish, popular for home aquariums because of their near-complete transparency, get their iridescence from fibres in their muscles, unlike many other species that shimmer. Aside from ...