The rare effect is created by light refracting off ice crystals in clouds, rather than water particles close to Earth, creating a 'flying' rainbow. 

'Late in the afternoon of June 5, a giant piece of colorful cloud appeared over the sky in Shenzhou Peninsula, Wanning City of south China's Hainan Province. A child on a fishing ship had the luck to observe this spectacular phenomenon and captured by a local photographer. 

'When the sun went down, the colorful cloud dispersed gradually,' says ...

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Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned perpendicular to the wind direction. Lenticular clouds can be separated into altocumulus standing lenticularis (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL). Due to their shape, they have been offered as an explanation...

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Night clouds or noctilucent clouds are tenuous cloud-like phenomena that are the "ragged-edge" of a much brighter and pervasive polar cloud layer called polar mesospheric clouds in the upper atmosphere, visible in a deep twilight. They are made of crystals of water ice. The name means roughly night shining in Latin. They are most commonly observed in the summer months at latitudes between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator. They can only be observed when the Sun is below the horizon...

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A sun dog or sundog, scientific name parhelion it is also called a mock sun or a phantom sun,is an atmospheric phenomenon that creates bright spots of light in the sky, often on a luminous ring or halo on either side of the sun.

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Mammatus clouds (from the Latin for 'udders') are formed when pockets of cold, saturated air sink rapidly from the top of a storm cloud, forming downward bulges like these seen over a sports stadium in Hastings, Nebraska.

 

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 It happens only once every three to five years, so when Nature whipped up her very own foam party, it was wasn't too long before people accepted the invite.

Body surfers were amazed to find waves of bubbles churned up for up to five kilometres along the coast of Lorne in Victoria, Australia.

It is a phenomenon that occurs once every few years when heavy rains send organic matter flowing into the ocean, where it is agitated into a froth.

The spectacle was captured earlier this month by Lor...
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