What else do you really know about these candy-colored phenomena?
Here are some amazing facts that will just blow your mind.
It is believed that the rainbow got its name from its shape. A rainbow’s arc looks similar to a bow for shooting arrows. People also noticed that this colorful arc would only form when it was raining so they called it a Rainbow.
Did you know you can never get to the end of the rainbow? When you move the rainbow moves too. You cannot touch a rainbow.
- Rainbows are made in the sky they don't touch the ground. They are actually complete circles of light. We only see some of the circles because we usually view the rainbow from the ground.
- From an airplane, a rainbow will appear as a circle. We can only see part of it on land.
- Earth is the only planet in the solar system where rainbows are possible.
- Each raindrop makes its own rainbow but it takes millions of raindrops for us to see a rainbow.
- Rainbows appear in the sky opposite the sun. A rainbows formation also depends on the angles of the sun. That is, a rainbow can be seen when the sun is at an angle of 42 degrees. That is why we mostly see a rainbow when the sun rises or sets.
- How you ever noticed that you don’t see many rainbows in the winter in a cold climate. This is because in the winter raindrops freeze into snowflakes so fewer raindrops fall.
Did you know that no two people see the same rainbow, why? A person standing next to you is standing in a slightly different spot and sees the rainbow in a slightly different place. The rainbow may look the same but there a little different because the person next to you sees different raindrops.
- Rainbows can exist at night! A "moonbow" is a rare lunar rainbow or nighttime rainbow produced by light from the moon. Our eyes see it as white even though all colors are faintly present.
- A "Fogbow" is formed by cloud and fog droplets, they are almost white with very faint colors visible. They are quite large and much broader than a rainbow.
- Rainbows are more commonly seen near waterfalls and in the tropical regions of the earth.
- Greek scholar Aristotle was one of the first thinkers to consider how and why rainbows were formed seriously. He rightly deduced that white light separated into the colors of the spectrum to form rainbows.
- However, in China rainbows are considered to contain just five colors red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
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