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The First Rainbow Seen on Another Planet

14-3-2014 < Red Ice Creations 248 66 words
 

In a colourful first, astronomers have captured the image of a rare type of rainbow, or ’glory’, on another planet. Rainbows appear on Earth due to light refracting off water droplets. In the case of this rainbow on Venus, light is refracting off a previously observed haze that is thought to be sulfuric acid! Wojciech Markiewicz of the Max Planck ...
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