Imagine looking up on your daily commute and catching this crazy visual trickery in the sky! Yesterday, Youtube user melkiy582 captured a massive halo of light was seen around the sun on the horizon in Moscow—a cool atmospheric phenomenon known by an even cooler name: Sundog.
The scientific title for the pair of bright spots flanking the sun is parhelion—it occurs mostly in the wintertime when viewed through cirrus clouds made up of falling ice crystals.
