A day-time sky worth watching
Sky phenomena are not reserved for the night alone. Despite its deceptive appearance, this light show is not a rainbow, but something more unusual. Here a relatively rare instance of a circumhorizontal arc, caused by particular refraction and reflection of light, casts vivid colours in the clouds over the site of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory.
Credit:G. Ávila/ESO
About the Image
Id: | 2016-02-1712-55-38-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 15 September 2016, 14:18 |
Size: | 3166 x 1781 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Sky Phenomenon : Light Phenomenon |
Category: | Paranal |