• Question: Scientifically what are rainbows

    Asked by Hardsham101 to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Marcello Valente

      Marcello Valente answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Natural sunlight is made by different color, sometimes crystals or drops of water in the air can separate the colors forming a rainbows.

    • Photo: Min Yap

      Min Yap answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      When natural sunlight enters raindrops and reflects off the side of the drop and exits, it is broken into a range of many colours. The different angles cause different colours from different drops to reach our eyes so we see a rainbow.

    • Photo: Aoife McHugh

      Aoife McHugh answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      It is when light enters a droplet and we can see the light as different colours and this is a rainbow. If you have ever blown bubbles, you can sometimes see loads of different colours on the bubble surface. This is the separating of the lights colours in the water, which then reflect off each other in the bubble.

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