Solar Halo

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An impressive solar halo, created by ice crystals in cirrus clouds that refract the incoming sunlight, seen over a palm tree near the offices of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, on June 27, 2006.

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Minimum credit line: Peter Marenfeld and NSO/AURA/NSF

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