An optical phenomenon known as a sun dog was spotted in the sky over several Connecticut towns on Tuesday afternoon. These colorful spots of light were visible in towns like Trumbull, Rocky Hill, ...

It’s a colorful sight in the sky that may seem both fleeting and incomplete. Chances are you’ve seen what appears to be a sliver of bright color up there near sunrise or sunset. That’s called a sun ...

Summer is usually when we see our dogs at their happiest—early morning light, longer days, and that extra bit of energy for the park. But as much as they love the sun, dogs are surprisingly bad at ...

It's not a dog that loves sunshine; such a dog would be in trouble around here. Rather the term describes two mock suns or bright spots, each located on either side of the sun. They form when high ...

Sun dogs, with a scientific name of perhelion, are either of two colored luminous spots that appear at roughly 22 degrees on both sides of the sun at the same elevation, according to the National ...

There's a rough rule of thumb that any time the sun is doing some sort of light trick -- be it a rainbow halo, or Parhelic Circles or simple sun dogs-- that rain is 24 hours or less away. And sure ...

"If we were able to take a picture of WASP-17b at optical wavelengths and resolve the disk of the planet, we would see these types of sun dog features." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...