What causes a halo of light around the moon?
Sometimes we see the face of the mom circled with a ghostly halo. There may be two rings of the pale light, one way outside the other. The circles may be incomplete, and there are times when the lunar halo is not a circle at all. The same kind of heavenly halos sometimes appear around the face of the sun. Seen through a telescope, there is always a fuzzy halo around the golden face of the planet venus. From outer space, the earth, too, wears a halo of light at all times. These planetary halos are caused by sunlight dancing through the cloudy atmospheres of Earth and Venus. But the moon has no atmosphere. What’s more, the lunar halo seems to be far, far above the surface of the moon near Actually, a lunar halo is no where/the moon at all. It is no farther away from us than the top of the clouds. It is, in fact, caused by certain thin clouds which float perhaps five or six miles above the earth. These clouds are usually made from finest ice crystals. They may be dense enough to cast a mi
