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Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

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themadcowtipper

Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Today's picture

tornado_nguyen.jpg


Explanation: The scene might have been considered serene if it weren't for the tornado. Last June in Kansas, storm chaser Eric Nguyen photographed this budding twister in a different light -- the light of a rainbow. Pictured above, a white tornado cloud descends from a dark storm cloud. The Sun, peeking through a clear patch of sky to the left, illuminates some buildings in the foreground. Sunlight reflects off raindrops to form a rainbow. By coincidence, the tornado appears to end right over the rainbow. Streaks in the image are hail being swept about by the high swirling winds.

pretty cool.
 

Nos_G

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Is that what happens when you pull the pot of gold from the end of the rainbow?

Consider me warned.

:O
 
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