Learn about the glory effect, a unique phenomenon that creates a colorful halo around objects in the sky. Discover how it differs from rainbows and what it tells us about the atmosphere.
When light strikes the atmosphere all sorts of interesting things can happen. Water vapor can split sunlight into a rainbow arc of colors, corpuscular rays can stream through gaps in clouds like the light from heaven, and halos and sundogs can appear due to sunlight reflecting off ice crystals. And then there is the glory effect , which can create a colorful almost saint-like halo around objects. Like rainbows, glories are seen when facing away from the light source.
They are often confused with circular rainbows because of their similarity, but glories are a unique effect. Rainbows are caused by the refraction of light through water droplets, while glories are caused by the wave interference of light. Because of this, a glory is most apparent when the water droplets of a cloud or fog are small and uniform in size. The appearance of a glory gives us information about the atmospher
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