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This Kentucky Waterfall Produces the Western Hemisphere's Only Regularly Occurring Moonbow

About 100 miles south of Lexington in rural southeastern Kentucky, you'll find one of the most unique experiences the natural world has to offer. At approximately 68-feet-tall and 125-feet-wide, ...

Yosemite’s moonbows are rare, nocturnal phenomena. Here’s how to see one.

Yosemite National Park is filled with natural wonders, and for a few months each year, it’s one of the few places on Earth ...
Hawk Central

See the rare moonbow at Kentucky’s ‘Niagara of the South’

This Kentucky gem is often referred to as the “Niagara of the South.” Cumberland Falls State Resort Park features a125-foot curtain of water that cascades into a rocky gorge. Cumberland Falls is ...
WLKY

Did you know Kentucky is one of the only places on Earth that has a regular 'moonbow?'

There's just something special about seeing a rainbow. But it's even rarer to see one at night.However, in Kentucky, you can see a "moonbow," or a lunar rainbow, pretty regularly. And it's one of only ...

Chasing the rare 'lunar rainbow' at Victoria Falls

A "moonbow" is one of nature's rarest sights – and Victoria Falls is one of the few places on Earth where travellers might ...
The Denver Post

Gold at the moonbow's end

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Yosemite National Park, Calif. – The hunt for the elusive “moonbow” has long been a nocturnal lure for dreamy hikers, insomniac seamen and intrepid photo ...
SFGate

Moonbow season is coming up at Yosemite

Moonbows, like the name implies, are lunar rainbows. When light is reflected off the moon, then refracted through mist from a dissipating rain — much like a regular rainbow — a moonbow is the (very ...
Los Angeles Times

Beauty in the misty moonlight

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Aristotle took note of this celestial happening a couple of millenniums back. Ben Franklin bagged a sighting or two, as did Mark Twain. The venerable John Muir, chronicler of ...
Medicine Buffalo

Light pollution obscures glow of Niagara Falls moonbow

You’ve seen a rainbow. But, have you ever witnessed the much rarer phenomenon known as a lunar rainbow, or moonbow? Moonbows used to occur regularly in the mist above Niagara Falls during the full ...
Gizmodo

Gorgeous photograph captures a moonbow, waterfall, meteor and the Milky Way. In one image.

For those who like to start their day with something mindblowing: here’s your chance to start today with four. The image you’re looking at was shot by Thierry Legault, one of the world’s most ...
USA Today

See the rare moonbow at Kentucky’s ‘Niagara of the South’

This slice of Southeastern Kentucky is the only place in the Western Hemisphere where a moonbow can be predicted with any regularity. The Cumberland Falls face north and flow north, and this allows ...