Weather.com - Allie Goolrick, 9/21/13
Rainbow on beach, Fortescue Bay, Tasman Peninsular. (Flickr/NeilsPhotography)
If you’ve ever fantasized about finding the elusive pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, you’re about to be sorely disappointed. Because finding the true end of a rainbow is about as unlikely as stumbling across an unclaimed cauldron of gold doubloons.
A rainbow is seen over Godewaersvelde, northern France, on Aug. 16, 2013. (Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images)
These pictures may come close—but what they really capture is one of nature’s greatest optical illusions.
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