So that's where we see that colour, which is reflected out of the raindrop," she said. A double rainbow was visible when there was a second reflection within a raindrop, so the colours were ...

A rainbow is made during a process called refraction, where light bends inside a prism (in this case, the spherical raindrops ... you’ll see the reflection of the light in the form the optical ...

and reflection of sunlight in water droplets. A rainbow forms when sunlight passes through raindrops in the air. The light bends as it enters the droplet, bounces off the inside, and bends again ...

In the 13th century Robert Grossteste, who became Bishop of Lincoln, wrote a treatise on the rainbow, suggesting it was not reflection ... refracted through raindrops. So it was a continuous ...