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Science Sunday: Understanding Atmospheric Optics

Science Sunday: Understanding Atmospheric Optics
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In this week's Science Sunday we're talking about atmospheric optics. Winter is the best chance for us to see some fascinating phenomena like halos. So what is a solar halo? And how does it form? Well to better understand how the atmosphere produces these bursts of color, we need to first understand light, check it out:

Science Sunday: Understanding Atmospheric Optics

Learn more about what causes halos, sundogs and sun pillars:

Explore even more atmospheric phenomena like tangent arcs and parhelic circles

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