China's 'Two Suns' Video Unexplained By Science - Yahoo! News

Weeks after a story shot across the Web claiming that the imminent explosion of a nearby star would result in the appearance of a second sun in the sky – a story that was later debunked – two suns were caught on camera yesterday in China. The suns – one fuzzy and orange, the other a crisp yellow orb – appeared side-by-side, one slightly higher than the other.

What's going on? Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to Space.com, asked Jim Kaler, the University of Illinois astronomer who http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/what-is-a-mirage-0533/"> [

He goes on to state that the double or multiple image phenomena are produced by abnormal refraction, but that "it remains extraordinary that the images of the sun and moon were sharp and of the same size as the real sun and moon."

To check whether more has been learned about the double sun effect since the time of Minnaert's writing, http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/">Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. Follow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter @

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