Viewers were mesmerized by the striking scene in the viral clip, with one saying, "That's a view into an alternate reality." ...

Dr Andrew Young, an atmospheric refraction expert, agrees that all the evidence points to a super mirage. ‘The mirage and related refraction phenomena, such as looming, contributed to the ...

For ground-based telescopes, atmospheric refraction is also an important factor, since it results in a smearing of the point-spread function (PSF), that can no longer be efficiently suppressed by the ...