We are looking at another aspect of optics in the atmosphere and the “cool” stuff you can sometimes see in the winter ...

The image to the left is from a camera attached to a high-altitude balloon. You can see the thin layer of our atmosphere that protects all life on Earth. The Earth's atmosphere is a thin sheet of air ...

"The surface of the Sun is about 6,000C or so, but the corona, this tenuous outer atmosphere that you can see during solar eclipses, reaches millions of degrees - and that is further away from the ...