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SCIENCE

A rainbow is sunlight bent and reflected inside raindrops

NOAA’s satellite agency says the outer bow of a double rainbow sends light out of the raindrop at 50° instead of the 42° of the red primary bow, which places it above…

Whitehall Minute
A full double rainbow arches over a village with orange-roofed houses under a grey sky, a fainter second bow just visible outside the first