http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111108.html
this weeks post is not a picture but instead a video of the phenomenon known as "sun dogs". The sun dog shown in the video is center stage and appears to be quickly jumping from place to place high within the clouds. The magic behind this wonderful show is currently hypothesized to be changes in an electrical field within the cloud quickly changing. this quick change would induces water crystals in the clouds to rearrange themselves and bend light in a different way with each change in the field. As amazing as this occurrence is, very little data is had on the phenomenon so scientist are scouring the world and the world wide web to find more evidence to analyze.
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