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Red rainbow rising

red rainbow over pittsburgh
"Sunset light making up this rainbow is highly reddened by its long travel through the lower atmosphere where air and dust preferentially scatter away blues and greens. Jerry Xiaojin Zhu's rainbow shows something more: that rainbows are disks with colored rims. When you next see a rainbow, look for the contrast between the bright sky inside and the dark of Alexander's dark band immediately outside."

via Spaceweather