A speaker notices the sun appearing unusually bright and white with visible rays, and wonders if an interstellar object called 3i Atlas recently affected it. She also observed unexpected rainbows forming on cloud edges, which she explains as water particles refracting sunlight into the full visible spectrum.
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at the moment, but the sun to me just seems to be so much whiter and lighter and brighter, and I can nearly see more rays coming off it. So, um, I'm not sure if that's just me or if anyone else has seen that too. So obviously we've had— it's been visited by my favorite, um, my favorite interstellar object, 3i Atlas. And I wonder if 3i Atlas hasn't had a little conversation with the sun, because the sun seems to have just picked up its step, and, and, um, it's a lot brighter and shinier and sparklier. And, and I was actually lying outside the other day looking at the clouds, and I did have my sunglasses on. And again, I don't know if this is something sunglasses do, but I could actually see rainbows in the clouds, like on the periphery of the clouds. So I've never noticed that before. So I don't know if you've ever noticed rainbows in the clouds, but I believe the sun— it must be the water particles, and the sun is hitting it and it's refracting into all the light spectrum, which Ah, beautiful.