Supernumerary rainbows: trying saying that five times fast! It's pronounced just like it's spelled if you go through it slowly: super-noom-er-ar-y (here's the real phonetics from the dictionary: ...

Marc Weinberg was tagged in this picture on twitter today and noticed something different about the rainbow. Can you see the faint bow lines? Those are known as supernumerary rainbows... Hannah Strong ...

A photograph of Saturday’s rainbow, taken by Twitter user @mattk4441, shows the rows of supernumerary rays below the primary rainbow and the secondary rainbow above. National Weather Service After a ...

IN Mr. Backhouse's letter (NATURE, vol. x. p. 437) he remarks that the supernumerary rainbow is commonly seen only in the upper part of the arch. Dr. Thomas Young, in his Bakerian Lecture (“Works,” ...