We can separate white light into all its different colours using ... So when the sun is behind you and the rain in front of you, you see a rainbow of colours reflected back from inside the raindrops.

This is because a rainbow is created in a similar way ... They make their own light to attract mates to breed with. We can split white light into a spectrum of colours using glass prisms or ...

The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, ...

Newton was also the first to understand the rainbow, and to refract white light with a prism into its component colours and back again into white light, establishing rigid experimental proof in ...