Credit & Copyright: Eric Houck
Explanation:
What are those colorful rings around the Moon?
A corona.
Rings like this will sometimes appear when the
Moon
is seen through thin clouds.
The effect is created by the
diffraction of light around individual,
similarly-sized water droplets in an
intervening but mostly transparent cloud.
Since light of different colors has
different wavelengths,
each color diffracts differently.
Lunar coronae are one of the few color
diffraction effects that can be easily seen with the unaided eye.
The
featured image of a lunar corona was captured around
last week's full Super Moon from near
Knight's Ferry,
California,
USA.
To the right of the
full Moon is the giant orange star
Botein.
Similar coronae that form around the Sun are typically
harder to see because of the Sun's great brightness.
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