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A rainbow over Harper's Lake in Louisville, Colorado. (Image credit: Bambi L. Dingman/dreamstime)

Quaternary Rainbow

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(Image credit: Michael Theusner/Applied Optics.)

Double Rainbow Lightning

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(Image credit: dcstormchaser/YouTube.)

Lightning struck seemingly in front of a double rainbow in suburban Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1, 2011. All the action was caught on video.

Cirrus Rainbow

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(Image credit: © Del Zane.)

This colorful phenomenon, known officially as a circumhorizon arc, occurs when sunlight strikes cirrus clouds the kind that typically look like cotton candy and form very high in the sky at a certain angle.

Glory from space

Glory from space

(Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response)

A view from space of a rainbow-like optical phenomenon called a glory, consisting of brilliant lines of color, taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on June 20, 2012.

Brunt Shelf Glory Icebridge

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(Image credit: Michael Studinger)

In this image, taken Oct. 26, 2010, over Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, a glory surrounds the shadow of the DC-8 plane that is flying NASA's IceBridge mission to survey the state of Antarctic ice. The image was taken during the first flight of Icebridge's fall 2010 campaign.

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