NASA has shared a stunning image of an inverted rainbow that looks like a colorful smile in the sky. The scientific name for this phenomenon is a ‘circumzenithal arc’. The picture Nasa … ...

Rare: An astronomer caught this unusual upside-down rainbow on camera near her home in Cambridge. But unlike a rainbow, the sky has to be clear of rain and low level clouds for it to be seen.

A couple sitting in their garden in Oxfordshire spotted a "rarely seen" inverted rainbow above their house. Louise Longson photographed the circumzenithal arc and said: "It was like a smile in the ...

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.

Upside-down rainbows actually exist, so the fact people fell for it kinda makes sense. “A circumzenithal arc is an optical effect which looks like an upside-down rainbow,” says the Met Office .

Inverted rainbow spotted in Oxfordshire Image source, Mark Longson Image caption, The couple were sitting on their patio at 14:00 GMT on Sunday when they saw the phenomenon ...

She then explained: "Inverted rainbows are only formed if there are ice crystals in the sky as the light is refracted in opposite direction than if it were water, as in a usual rainbow.

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