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Christa Harbig

Photographer who captured the circumhorizontal arc

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NASA Highlights 'Fire Rainbow' Phenomenon Over West Virginia
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NASA Highlights 'Fire Rainbow' Phenomenon Over West Virginia

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a circumhorizontal arc, popularly known as a 'fire rainbow,' captured near North Fork Mountain in West Virginia. The visual phenomenon relies on specific solar angles and horizontally aligned ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.