Or you could create your own rainbow. I am a physicist, and I’ll explain how to do that in a minute. Rainbows form when ...

The light from a rainbow is sunlight, reflected and broken into colors by water drops. A rainbow always forms part of a circle, and the center of that circle is the point opposite the sun—from ...

The next time it is a sunny day you can even create your own rainbow! If you use a water spray or hose to create the water droplets and remember to keep the sun behind you, and don’t get wet!

A regular rainbow happens when sunlight is refracted through water droplets, usually rain drops, splitting the light into the spectrum of colours. By Matt Taylor, BBC Weather Double rainbows ...

Understanding the Rainbow A rainbow is created when sunlight passes through water droplets in the air, refracting light into its individual colors. This process, known as dispersion, separates ...