SEATTLE -- It was a sun halo party over Seattle Wednesday morning and every kind of atmospheric event was invited. Dr. Angela Rowe with the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department ...

If you did, you spotted an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as a 22-degree halo. Earthsky.org explains it very simply: “Halos are a sign of high thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet or more ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a phenomenon scientists had lost hope of ever seeing on Mars. On Earth, when conditions are just right, ice crystals in the atmosphere can warp sunlight to create ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Our weather has been quiet, but that doesn’t mean unique and interesting things can’t still happen. A WHAS11 viewer sent the First Alert Storm Team video of multiple halos in the ...

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BOSTON (CBS) - Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a circle of light around the sun or moon? There's an old weather saying that states "Ring around the sun or moon means rain or snow soon." ...

A unique optical effect of the sun, called a 22-degree circular halo, was visible Monday morning over La Crosse. While not uncommon, the halo is only visible under certain weather conditions, said Dan ...

Have you ever looked up and spotted a ring around the sun? This optical phenomenon is called a 22-degree halo. That's because the radius of the halo is approximately 22 degrees. So how are they formed ...

Bengaluru, May 24 (IANS) India’s tech hub witnessed an optical phenomenon – Sun Halo or a rainbow-coloured ring around the sun across Bengaluru on Monday, which brightened up the day with several ...

At least three separate optical phenomena are visible in the new images. Each of which is created by light refracting through millions of perfectly aligned ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. When ...

This article is part of the SciFri Science Club’s Explain the Sun activity. Participate using the hashtag #ExplainTheSun. What you’re seeing above are just two of the nearly four-dozen different kinds ...