20+ Amazing Facts about Rainbow in English

Have you ever seen anything colorful in the sky? Especially after the rain… Hopefully you would have seen it but did you try to find out how it was formed? Why isn’t it made every day? etc.. etc.. no. So today we will tell you everything you want to know about that rainbow.

Interesting facts about Rainbow 1 to 10 – Rainbow in English

1. Rainbow is actually completely round but from the ground we can see only half, so you can see a completely round rainbow from a high flying airplane.

2. Rainbows are most visible in the last four hours of sunlight.

3. Rainbows are mostly seen near waterfalls and in areas near the equator.

4. Most rainbows on earth are visible in the US state of Hawaii. That is why it is also called ‘The Rainbow State’.

5. How is rainbow formed: Sunlight appears white in color to us but in reality it is made up of seven colors which are visible to us only when we look through a prism. You have come to know about this, now let’s come to the formation of rainbow… When during the rainy season, sunlight is refracted and reflected by millions of droplets simultaneously, then the water droplets work as prisms due to which we get the sunlight. All seven colors become visible in the open sky. This is called rainbow.

Amazing Facts about Rainbow in English

6. Rainbow color sequence: It is made up of seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. There is also an easy way to remember these colors: “ROY G BIV”.

7. Purple and orange were added to the rainbow colors by Isaac Newton in 1666, otherwise before that only 5 colors were considered in the rainbow. However, in China there are still only five colors considered in a rainbow.

8. René Descartes was the first person to discover in 1637 that rainbows are formed when sunlight reflects off raindrops.

9. You can see rainbows only when the sun is at your back.

10. The rainbow formed by moonlight is called Moonbow and the rainbow formed by fog is called Fogbow. This type of rainbow is very rare.

Interesting facts about Rainbow 11 to 22 – Rainbow in English

11. Sometimes two, three or four rainbows are seen simultaneously. This happens when sunlight hits the rain drops more than once.

12. If two rainbows are formed simultaneously, the colors of the second rainbow will be in the exact opposite order to the primary rainbow. That’s why you’ll see purple at the top instead of red in the second rainbow.

13. No two people can see the same rainbow. Because, if the person standing next to you is standing at a different place from you, then he will also see the rainbow differently. Although you may both think you are looking at the same rainbow, you are actually looking at different rainbows. Every rain drop creates its own rainbow, so wherever the person is standing, he will see the rainbow there.

14. When the sun is at a high altitude, we will see a rainbow below and when the sun is low, we will see a rainbow at a high altitude.

15. You can’t touch the rainbow.

16. Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan are the two places in the solar system where rainbow formation is possible. Rainbows form on Titan when sunlight reflects off droplets of liquid methane. The angle of rainbow on Titan is about 49 degrees instead of 42 degrees.

17. The thick part between two rainbows is called Alexander Band. It was first defined by Alexander in 200 AD.

18. In ancient times, different civilizations had different beliefs about rainbow. According to Greek mythology, the rainbow is a bridge between heaven and earth, while the ancient people of Serbia believed that the rainbow is the bow of the ‘Storm God’.

Interesting facts about Rainbow

19. If you look at the rainbow with polarized glasses straight, you will not see the rainbow. (Polarized glasses are those glasses which do not cause glare and in which light comes into our eyes from only one place)

20. The word ‘rainbow’ is derived from the Latin word ‘arcus pluvius’, which means “arc of rain”.

21. South Africa is also called ‘Rainbow Nation’.

22. The longest visible rainbow to date was seen on March 14, 1994 in the English city of Sheffield. It was visible from 9 am to 3 pm.

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