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$26K views · 1.3K reactions | This scene captures a rare atmospheric phenomenon: an anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud crowned with a thin, iridescent layer. The colors appear when sunlight scatters through microscopic ice crystals at the cloud’s upper boundary, producing a spectrum similar to a rainbow but formed by diffraction, not rain. What looks dramatic is simply the physics of light interacting with a rapidly rising storm column at sunset. | AstroNature | Facebook$

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26K views · 1.3K reactions | This scene captures a rare atmospheric phenomenon: an anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud crowned with a thin, iridescent layer. The colors appear

AstroNature. AstroNature · Original audio. This scene captures a rare atmospheric phenomenon: an anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud crowned with a thin, iridescent layer. The colors appear when sunlight scatters through microscopic ice crystals at the cloud’s upper boundary, producing a spectrum similar to a rainbow but formed by diffraction ...

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$91K views · 2.1K reactions | Great example of cloud iridescence today near Daytona Beach. Rising air in a developing thunderstorm can often spread tiny water droplets or ice crystals at the top of the cloud. The thin layer of water/ice can diffract light from the sun causing a rainbow effect.  Victoria Kinder | FOX 13's Paul Dellegatto | Facebook$

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91K views · 2.1K reactions | Great example of cloud iridescence today near Daytona Beach. Rising air in a developing thunderstorm can often spread tiny water droplets or ice crystals at the top of the cloud. The thin layer of water/ice can diffract light from the sun causing a rainbow effect.  Victoria Kinder | FOX 13's Paul Dellegatto | Facebook

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$Just after sunset near Flagstaff, Arizona, a storm cloud caught the Sun’s last light in a rare way. Instead of fading into gray, the cloud shimmered with flowing bands of color, like a painted wave suspended in the sky. This wasn’t fire or aurora. It was cloud iridescence — a fleeting optical effect created when sunlight diffracts through tiny ice crystals high in the atmosphere. Moments like this last only seconds. Then the light fades… leaving behind nothing but wonder. | I Love The Universe$

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Just after sunset near Flagstaff, Arizona, a storm cloud caught the Sun’s last light in a rare way. Instead of fading into gray, the cloud shimmered with flowing bands of color, like a painted wave suspended in the sky. This wasn’t fire or aurora. It was cloud iridescence — a fleeting optical effect created when sunlight diffracts through tiny ice crystals high in the atmosphere. Moments like this last only seconds. Then the light fades… leaving behind nothing but wonder. | I Love The Universe

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$Beautiful cloud iridescence - tiny ice crystals in the air (the cloud) which cause light from the sun to be diffracted! Captured in Ribeirao Claro, Brazil 📹: Andre Nassif/Storyful | Ginger Zee$