The short answer to this question: Light bounces off of water droplets and is split into the colors that make up white light. That refracted light is bounced back to our eyes as a rainbow. But let's ...

A tiny chunk of dead star just 731 light-years away has presented astronomers with a shimmering puzzle: a powerful, glowing ...

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A dead star in our galactic neighborhood has produced a shimmering, ringed structure that looks uncannily like a cosmic ...

Can’t get enough rainbows? See photos and videos of double rainbows, moonbows, cloudbows, and more in a Science Friday article! Steven Businger saw this double rainbow outside his home in Hawaii in ...

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There is a beautiful natural phenomenon that can occur after a rainfall, when sunlight faces off against a swarm of water droplets hanging in the atmosphere. If you are lucky enough to be standing in ...

Skittles have a hard sugar coating mixed with different food coloring. When the hot water is poured onto the skittles, the water dissolves the sugar coating leaving just the food coloring to mix into ...