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3 suns in sky over china
Anyone seen the pictures, looks scary to me. What with all the freak weather all around the world.
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There is a really nice photo of the same kind of thing taken in Stockholm last year here http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110110.html and you can find more images and explanations of that and lots of other phenomena at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/
Gen2 is absolutely right you only have to keep your eyes open and look around you and you will see all sorts of unusual natural phenomena. The picture is an extreme example of 'sun dogs' which are quite common, I see them many times per year, you just have to know what to look for. 'Moon dogs. also occur but more rarely. There is a whole menagerie of phenomena of this kind and if you are observant you will see most of them.
Quite right Jake and Jo. They're sun dogs which are not that unusual. They are caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the atmosphere - I think through an angle of 22 degrees. I've seen them a few times in the UK.
Why do people make out that perfectly natural phenomena must be something unusual?
Why do people make out that perfectly natural phenomena must be something unusual?
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