Have you ever looked up in the sky and noticed colored spots on either one or both sides of the sun? Bright spots that looked like tiny rainbows? If so, you probably saw a sun dog, also known as mock ...

Across the Ozarks, many people noticed an unusual sight in the sky on Tuesday. A partial rainbow near the sun. The optical illusion is most commonly referred to as a sundog, or a mock sun. Sundogs ...

When the right conditions come into place, the atmosphere can provide us with stunning visual effects. In order to understand the cause of what we’re seeing, let’s establish the difference between ...

Sun dogs, with a scientific name of perhelion, are either of two colored luminous spots that appear at roughly 22 degrees on both sides of the sun at the same elevation, according to the National ...

A rare and mysterious halo was filmed over a snow-capped mountain in Sweden, with the footage shared in a viral social media post. As posted by user @TheFigen_ on Twitter on October 24, the eerie ...

FARGO — A rainbow happens when sunshine beams through the drops of a rain shower. Each ray of light is bent inside the raindrops and separated into the visible colors of the rainbow. This process is ...