If you've ever looked up at the full moon in the night sky, you may have noticed a large halo of light around it. But why does this lustrous ring sometimes encircle our natural satellite? While it ...

An ethereal halo of light around the full moon created by ice crystals from overhanging clouds recently shone bright during a SpaceX rocket launch in Florida, setting the stage for a stunning ...

On Reddit, users located as far as the U.K. also reported seeing the ghostly phenomenon. A moon halo is actually an atmospheric optical illusion that causes a large, bright ring to surround our ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Have you ever seen a halo-effect or ring around the moon? Known as a moon ring, a winter halo, or a 22-degree halo, it's when "ice crystals suspended high above in thin wispy ...

If you've seen an angelic-looking moon in the Bay Area sky lately, there's a fun scientific reason for the celestial sight. "Light from the almost full moon is refracting through ice crystals in the ...

Halos are light rings around the sun or moon, created by the refraction of light “off ice crystals present in a thin veil of cirrus clouds,” according to the National Weather Service. Chloe Brady, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Just the other day, the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi posted a photo of a halo in the sky that was showing up around the moon, which is a phenomenon that can sometimes be ...

It’s been quite a week for stargazers across the globe after a rare lunar eclipse had a spectacular impact on the moon. A super blood wolf moon moved into the UK on Sunday night, during which sunlight ...

(WLUK) -- If you've looked up at the sky at any point over the past few days, you may have noticed a peculiar circle of light surrounding the sun or moon. The optical phenomenon known as a halo was ...

An eerily-perfect ring of light was spotted around the full moon in Florida during the recent launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, creating a stunning new photo. When you purchase through links on our ...