NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals ...

Ukrainian polar explorers from the Antarctic Station Akademik Vernadsky filmed the phenomenon of parhelion - when three Suns ...

A photographer has captured stunning sun halo over mystical Glastonbury Tor this morning (27 May). Michelle Cowbourne says ...

Nagpur: A spectacular halo formed around the Sun on Wednesday afternoon, creating a lot of curiosity among citizens and ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

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"Yesterday, while I was inside my room, I happened to glance outside my window and noticed a distinct, glowing ring around ...

"This phenomenon is rare in the UAE because it's usually too hot and dry for the high-altitude ice crystals needed to form a sun halo," she said. "It doesn’t have any direct impact on the sun or ...

The phenomenon occurs when sunlight hits ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus ... Arabia’s Aseer region this morning, as a rare sun halo formed a perfect, glowing ring around the sun.

A sun halo forms when sunlight interacts with ice crystals in the atmosphere. These crystals are from thin clouds so high in the sky that they are made of ice rather than water droplets.