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Chasing Rainbows

What are rainbows? Why do they appear?

Rainbows are made by sunlight and water drops.

Light travels as waves of energy. Blue light travels in short waves. Red light has longer waves. Sunlight is a crazy mix of many colors of light—including some we can’t see. Our brains read “many colors of light all at once” as “white light”. So all the colors of the

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