‘Burgeroids’ Cause Double Rainbows

Published in ScienceNOW, 12 Dec 2011

Red and yellow and pink and green—for scientists, a rainbow isn’t much of a mystery. Sunlight bounces off raindrops, splitting into its constituent colors and heading backwards at a precise angle, which makes a rainbow appear as a semicircle wherever you stand. But what about two rainbows at once? Now, researchers performing computer simulations think they have an explanation for this odd phenomenon. […]

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