Caught up in the clouds
Sky phenomena are not reserved for the night alone. Despite its deceptive appearance, this light show is not a rainbow, but something more unusual. Here a relatively rare instance of a circumhorizontal arc, caused by particular refraction of light, casts vivid colours in the clouds over one of the ESO observatory sites in Chile.
Credit:G. Ávila/ESO
About the Image
Id: | 2016-02-1713-00-14-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 15 September 2016, 14:17 |
Size: | 3264 x 1836 px |
About the Object
Type: | Unspecified : Sky Phenomenon : Light Phenomenon |
Category: | Paranal |