When sunlight passes through raindrops, the rain drops act like a glass prism. The sunlight is split into the rainbow colours in the sky, and a rainbow appears.
A rainbow is created when sunlight is refracted, or bent, and scattered in raindrops, splitting the light into its different colors. Each color in the rainbow corresponds to a different wavelength of light, creating the beautiful spectrum we see.
If it is sunny after the rain has stopped, you are likely to see a rainbow in the sky.
A rainbow appears in the opposite direction of the sun because the light is being refracted, reflected, and dispersed by raindrops in the atmosphere. When sunlight enters a raindrop and is refracted, it is then reflected off the back of the raindrop and dispersed, creating a rainbow that appears on the opposite side of the sky from the sun.
You can see a rainbow when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed through water droplets in the air, such as after a rain shower or near a waterfall. The most common time to see a rainbow is when the sun is low in the sky, at around a 42-degree angle from your eyes.
Lowest frequency = longest wavelength.That's the last color your eyes can see at the 'red' end of the rainbow.
these types of rainbow around the sea because in sea air wetness these reason to rainbow in sea is cercular ================================= Not when you're on the ground, you can't, because the center of the rainbow is in front of you, and the bottom half of it is 'underground'. But from an aircraft, if the conditions and the configuration are just right, with rain or thick clouds below you and the sun high over you, you can look down and see the full rainbow.
There is no "why" because it's possibl to see a rainbow at night, but rare. The reason is that the source of the colors in the rainbow during the day is the sun, whereas the source at night can only be the moon, which is much less bright, so any rainbow at night would be much less noticeable.
You see a rainbow because you want to, and you do because you feel like it.
It is used in optical fibers. It is also the reason we see a rainbow and why diamonds have their brilliance.
No, as you move the rainbow you see moves too. No, because the bit of the rainbow you see is part of a circle and circles have no end. However, you can direct someone else to the place where YOU see the end of your rainbow (but THEY will not see it when they get there).
Another contributor said: A rainbow is simply light refracted through water droplets. There is no real connection with gold whatsoever. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More simply put, the reason is that it is actually impossible to put yourself at the end of a rainbow. As you move towards where you see the end of the rainbow to be, the rainbow moves so you can never get to the end.
There is no color your eye can see that is not in the rainbow.
There is no color your eye can see that is not in the rainbow.
No, different people may see slightly different rainbows depending on their viewing angle and distance from the rainbow. Each person's perspective will affect the portion of the rainbow they are able to see.
There is no "why" because the hypothesis of the question is false.You absolutely can see the sun and a rainbow at the same time. In fact,if the sun isn't there, in a patch of clear sky, then there can't be a rainbow.Maybe the reason for your impression that you can't see them at the same timeis the simple fact that the sun and the rainbow are always in exactly oppositedirections from you, and so in order to see one of them, you must look awayfrom the other one.
No. In order to see a rainbow in front of you, there must be a source of light behind you, and the rainbow you see will only have the colors of the source in it.
One doesn't have to be at any specific angle to see a rainbow. What is Dependent on seeing the rainbow is the location of the rain, and sun relative to you. The sun is always behind a rainbow when seen. So you would be in front of the rainbow, rain, and the sun. Also, No two people see the same rainbow unless a picture or video was taken of the rainbow.