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Where The Rainbow Ends
http://zekri85.loxblog.com/post/11690
If you’ve ever fantasized about finding the elusive pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, you’re about to be sorely disappointed. Because finding the true end of a rainbow is about as unlikely as stumbling across an unclaimed cauldron of gold doubloons.
These pictures may come close—but what they really capture is one of nature’s greatest optical illusions.
Rainbows are formed when water droplets in the atmosphere refract, or bend, sunlight in just the right circumstances. But you, as the observer, have to catch them just from the right angle and point of view as well in order to see them.
Most people don’t realize that whenever you see a rainbow, the sun is directly behind you — and the rain in front.
