• Question: How is a rainbow made?

    Asked by rebecca.leyland to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 16 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      Hi Rebecca,

      THAT is a brilliant question. As light travels through raindrops at a particular angle, the different colours making up the white light are bent by different amounts, splitting the sunlight into multi-colours, which we see as a rainbow!

      Peter

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