What are glories?

Glories are bright, colorful rings that appear around light sources when you look at them through certain kinds of mist or clouds.

Imagine you're playing with a flashlight in the bathroom on a foggy day. You turn it on and shine it toward the mirror, instead of just seeing a normal reflection, you might see glory around the light, like a rainbow halo around the beam. That’s what happens in real life when sunlight or moonlight passes through misty air or clouds close to you.

Think of glory like a foggy mirror that makes light bend and spread out into different colors, just like how a prism splits white light into rainbows. When the light comes back to your eyes after bouncing off the tiny water droplets in the mist or cloud, it creates those beautiful colorful rings around the light source, that’s the glory!

You can see glories when you’re close enough to a foggy area, like near a waterfall or on a cloudy day. They look like little rainbows made just for you, and they happen every time the right conditions come together!