Quite Interesting Facts About Rainbow

A rainbow occurs when it is raining in one part of the sky and sunny in another. The colors of the rainbow are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. Do you know Quite Interesting Facts About Rainbow that Scientist Isaac Newton explained how a rainbow forms. He discovered the seven distinct colours of the visible spectrum.

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Quite Interesting Facts About Rainbow

• In Greek mythology, Iris was believed to come with the rainbow as a bridge between the heavens and earth.  Iris was the Greek goddess of the Rainbow.
• Earth is the only planet in the solar system where rainbows are possible.
• Do you know Quite Interesting Facts About Rainbow that you cannot touch a rainbow.
• On the ground, we only see a semi-circle rainbow but from very high up such as on an airplane you can see a rainbow in a complete circle.
• The sky within a primary rainbow is brighter than the sky outside of the arc. This is due to the fact that the millions of droplets needed to make a rainbow are spherical and overlap to create white light.
• A “moonbow” is a rare lunar rainbow or night time rainbow produced by light from the moon. Our eyes see it as white even though all colors are faintly present.
• A “fogbow” is formed by cloud and fog droplets, they are almost white with very faint colors visible. Fogbows are quite large and much broader than a rainbow.
• Rainbows are the universal symbol of peace and harmony.
• The angle of light refraction to create a Rainbow is 42 degrees to the eye of the observer.
• Do you know Quite Interesting Facts About Rainbow that you can’t see all the colors of a rainbow.
• You can never reach the end of a rainbow because Rainbows appear to move as you move.
• Snell was credited with the discovery of the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction.
• It is believed that rainbow got its name from its shape.  A rainbow’s arc looks similar to a bow for shooting arrows.  People also noticed that this colorful arc would only form when it was raining so they called it a
  rainbow.
• The dark, unlit sky between the primary arc and secondary arc is called Alexander’s band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it in 200 AD.
• A rainbow is not an object, it cannot be approached or physically touched.
• Rainbows in your environment create good Feng Shui.
• Each wavelength of light has a rate of vibration and produces the colors of the Rainbow. Rainbows and music are made of the same stuff just vibrating at a different frequency.

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