Refraction is the bending of light when it goes from one medium to another so, when a ray of light passes through a prism it deviates.

Explores the principles of light, reflection, and magnification through hands-on experiments. Children observe how a magnifying glass focuses sunlight to create heat, examine the effects of light ...

But only Newton saw what this implies: that refraction is then all there is to it. The colors themselves are already in the white light, and all the prism does is to separate them out.

Passing white light through a prism separates it into its individual wavelengths. So why doesn't Earth's atmosphere do the same thing?

Two physicists at Lehigh University have produced a rainbow of visible and invisible colors by focusing laser light in a specially designed optical fiber that confines light in a glass core whose ...

Keen plane spotter and air show fan Bernardo Malfitano took the shot and was stunned when he saw the incredible rainbow effect pouring off the back of the military aircraft.

The refraction of light at an interface is familiar as a rainbow or the 'bending' of a pencil in a glass of water. Here we show that particles can also be refracted and even totally internally ...