Whether it's Saint Patrick's Day or National Find A Rainbow Day (April 3), everyone loves finding a rainbow - and maybe a pot of gold at the end. I can't tell you how to find a pot of gold, but I can ...

MACON, Ga. — A rainbow forms when sunlight enters a raindrop. When this happens, sunlight bounces around the raindrop and changes speed and direction. That's called refraction. These changes also ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about the formation of rainbows. We will use water and light to make your very own rainbow. Sunlight is made up of all colors, this is called white light. As ...

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MACON, Ga. — Rainbows have stretched across Central Georgia all summer, and here is a look as just a few viewers have sent in. These rainbows come in all different shapes and sizes. It may even ponder ...

It’s a beautiful sight: a rainbow and a secondary rainbow at a greater angle above it. The term “double rainbow” is used when both the primary and secondary rainbows are visible. A primary rainbow is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Viewers across West Michigan were in awe of the patches of rainbow popping up across the area on Sunday. Sundogs are a result of the refraction of light when the sun's rays ...

This week, thanks to a question from Temple, New Hampshire resident Lorraine von Sneidern, the Curiosity Desk not only went chasing answers, we also went chasing rainbows. "Why are the rainbows that I ...

As an awe-inspiring phenomenon in the sky, the rainbow is a common occurrence. You might remember making rainbows with prisms as a science experiment on light refraction when you were in school.

Answer: The principal indication given by a double bow is that the raindrops that are refracting and reflecting sunlight are of medium to large size, rather than being very small or tiny droplets.