NASA shares a rare photograph of a rainbow-like halo surrounding the Moon

We may have heard a lot about rainbows but the phenomenon of rainbows appearing around the Moon in Turin, Italy in 2014 was unprecedented.

NASA recently shared an impressive picture of the Moon. It is a rainbow sighting the Moon right at night. This is a photo of photographer Giorgia Hofer.

The spectacle of the rainbow surrounds the Moon at night.

A rainbow-like band that surrounds the Moon is actually a corona (halo or halo) , which appeared on a full moon night in the city of Torino, Italy in 2014.

This effect is created by quantum mechanical diffraction of light around water droplets of similar size in a layered and transparent cloud, NASA said.

Because each wavelength has a different color, diffraction phenomenon also produces many different colors. The halo is one of the few quantum mechanical effects that is easily visible to the naked eye.

Most halos usually appear around the Sun and rarely around the Moon. However, according to NASA, the halo around the Sun is more difficult to see and we sometimes can not see their actual colors and with the Moon, we can see the halo's color clearly.

This is not the first time that NASA has shared such an interesting astronomical image. Last year, NASA photographer John Entwistle captured a breathtaking moment capturing a scene of a rainbow stratum layer intertwined after the storm of Florence swept across the state of New Jersey.

The strata of the rainbow layer overlapped with each other after Hurricane Florence swept through the state of New Jersey.

This rare rainbow phenomenon is also known as a supernatural rainbow. They usually fade in about half an hour. Supernatural rainbows form when droplets of water are about the same size. When sunlight hits the water droplets, the light will bounce off the inside of the raindrops and bounce back to create a rainbow.