From a helicopter, you can see a circle rainbow with Molokai Island in the background. Credit: Steven Businger When you see a rainbow, you’re only viewing a small slice of the picture. That signature ...

In "Weather Science: Pierrot And The Rainbow," a character named Pierrot dreams of touching a rainbow. Through his daydream, he learns that rainbows are formed when sunlight passes through ...

Just as a typical rainbow separates colors into different spatial locations, different pitches are directed to distinct positions around the device, the researchers report June 11 in Science Advances.

A rainbow, as every schoolboy knows, is formed by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. Optical engineers have known for some time that an artificial rainbow can be produced by passing ...

The seven colors of a rainbow go from red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet is always at the bottom. When there is a double rainbow, the color order is reversed.

Incredible full circle rainbow (and secondary, too) seen from an airplane. Source: oskarslidums on reddit Oh, wow! I knew scientifically this was possible, and I’ve heard pilots say they’ve ...

How the rainbow is created by this mixture might surprise you! In this science activity you'll make your own milk rainbow and explore how detergent and surface tension are involved in its creation.

About 11 o’clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress. The prismatic colors were fairly distinguishable.

Rainbows are a common occurrence on Earth, but if you want to see moonbows, double rainbows, or a whole 360-degree rainbow, Hawaiʻi—also known as the Rainbow State—is the best place to look.