"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" sings Kermit the Frog in a song (about rainbows) called "Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie." And it's not just songs that feature rainbows ...

As the French astronomer Camille Flammarion said, the effects of light "produce ... also studied refraction in water and provided an accurate mathematical explanation for the rainbow.

A rainbow is made during a process called refraction, where light bends inside a prism (in this case, the spherical raindrops). Each colour is refracted at a different angle and so becomes visible ...

This is called refraction. This can happen in ... and don’t get wet! Rainbows are curved because we see light reflected at different angles from raindrops all around the direction you are ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - To create atmospheric optics we need two things: ice crystals in the air and a light source. All ...