RAINBOW SPIKES AROUND THE SUN

 RAINBOW SPIKES AROUND THE SUN

One sunrise… and the light fractures into color.

What you’re seeing is a sunburst with rainbow “spokes” — and in most real photos, this look happens when bright sunlight hits a camera lens or a filter (like a diffraction/prism effect). The lens can split the light into red/green/blue edges and repeat that pattern outward, creating those clean, evenly spaced rainbow streaks.

In the natural sky, you can get real halos and light arcs (from ice crystals), but perfect, repeated rainbow spikes like this are usually a photographic light effect rather than a rare atmospheric event.