The shape on the horizon that Maricarmen Khalaf could see from a ferry travelling from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay looked like a ...

Dr. Wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. The air is thick with recession talk, and stocks are cratering. But it just may be a mirage, a refraction ...

The type of mirage we’ve been talking about is called an inferior mirage. But it’s not the only kind. Superior mirages occur when the warmer air is above, not below, the cooler air. This often happens ...

A mirage forms when the light from the sky curves upward toward the cooler air and appears to be coming from the ground. ... due to the angle of refraction and the refractive index of the light, ...

Refraction and dispersion cause the green flash, and there are four different types of green flashes that can occur. ... mock mirage, subduct flashes, and green ray.

‘The mirage and related refraction phenomena, such as looming, contributed to the confusion at the time of the accident,’ said Dr Young, from San Diego State University.

The mirage is an image of a real thing — it can even be photographed — but it's often a distorted image, and it's easy to misinterpret. ... The short answer is refraction, ...

The video has left some viewers puzzled, while others marveled at the power of atmospheric refraction. FlyFishAk wrote, "In my 39yrs here in Alaska I've never seen anything like this!" ...

NATURAL mirage is due to the passage of rays of light through strata of air in which the refractive index is a function of the height of the ray above the ground. In these strata the air, though ...

A mirage is an optical illusion that occurs when light rays bend due to refraction in layers of air with different densities. This phenomenon creates the appearance of a distant object or scene, which ...