{"id":2589,"date":"2023-05-22T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-science-of-the-atmospheric-phenomenon-that-inspired-hilma-af-klint-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:41:11","slug":"the-science-of-the-atmospheric-phenomenon-that-inspired-hilma-af-klint-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-science-of-the-atmospheric-phenomenon-that-inspired-hilma-af-klint-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired Hilma af Klint \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Sundogs<\/a><\/p>\n

On the morning of April 10, 1535, the skies of Stockholm came ablaze with three suns intersected by several bright circles and arcs. Awestruck, people took it for a sign from God \u2014 a benediction on the new Lutheran faith that had taken hold of Sweden. Catholics took it for the opposite \u2014 punishment lashed on King Gustav Vasa for having ushered in the Protestant Reformation a decade earlier. <\/p>\n

What the pious were actually witnessing was a parhelion, from the Greek for \u201cbeside the sun,\u201d also known as sundog or mock sun \u2014 an atmospheric optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high, cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds<\/a>, or in moist ground-level clouds known as diamond dust.<\/p>\n

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